Flexor digiti minimi brevis of foot

Looks like

A small muscle along the outer sole, from the base of the fifth foot bone to the little toe.

What it does

Bends the little toe at its base joint.

Keeping it well

Rarely clinically important.

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