Anatom3DSecond plantar interosseous of foot
Musculus interosseus plantaris secundus · Druhý chodidlový mezikostní sval
Muscles
Looks like
A small muscle in the sole on the fourth foot bone, ending on the inner side of the fourth toe.
What it does
Pulls the fourth toe toward the second and helps bend its base joint.
Keeping it well
Rarely clinically important on its own.
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