Anatom3DOblique head of adductor hallucis
Caput obliquum musculi adductoris hallucis · Šikmá hlava přitahovače palce nohy
Muscles
Looks like
A thick muscle belly deep in the sole, running diagonally from the bases of the second to fourth foot bones to the big toe.
What it does
Pulls the big toe toward the others and helps hold up the forefoot arch.
Keeping it well
Its pull helps drive the big toe sideways in bunions; surgeons often release it in bunion correction.
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