Anatom3DFirst plantar interosseous of foot
Musculus interosseus plantaris primus · První chodidlový mezikostní sval
Muscles
Looks like
A small muscle in the sole on the third foot bone, ending on the inner side of the third toe.
What it does
Pulls the third toe toward the second and helps bend its base joint.
Keeping it well
Weakness contributes to toe deformities; supplied by the lateral plantar nerve.
Related conditions
- Botulism
- Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clubfoot (talipes equinovarus)
- Fibromyalgia
- Flat feet (pes planus)
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Ganglion cyst
- Gout
- Hammer toe and claw toe
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Morton's neuroma
- Muscular dystrophy
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Tetanus
- Varicose veins
- Venomous snakebite