Anatom3DMedial head of flexor hallucis brevis
Caput mediale musculi flexoris hallucis brevis · Vnitřní hlava krátkého ohýbače palce nohy
Muscles
Looks like
The inner part of the short big-toe flexor, joining abductor hallucis and holding the inner sesamoid bone.
What it does
Bends the big toe at its base joint; its sesamoid takes weight under the ball of the foot.
Keeping it well
The inner sesamoid is the one that most often hurts or breaks (sesamoiditis); padding and rest usually 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