Anatom3DSecond lumbrical of foot
Musculus lumbricalis secundus pedis · Druhý červovitý sval nohy
Muscles
Looks like
A small worm-like muscle in the sole, from two long flexor tendons to the third toe.
What it does
Bends the third toe at its base joint while keeping its end joints straight.
Keeping it well
Weakness contributes to hammer and claw toes.
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