Anatom3DFlexor digitorum brevis
Musculus flexor digitorum brevis · Krátký ohýbač prstů
Muscles
Looks like
A muscle in the middle of the sole, just above the plantar fascia, from the heel bone to the four small toes.
What it does
Bends the small toes and supports the foot's long arch.
Keeping it well
Lies right over the plantar fascia, so heel pain there can involve it; stretching and calf work help.
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