Anatom3DSet of calcaneal branches of posterior tibial artery
Rami calcanei arteriae tibialis posterioris · Patní větve zadní holenní tepny
Heart & arteries
Looks like
Several small arteries leaving the posterior tibial artery behind the ankle and spreading into the inner heel.
What it does
Supply the heel's fat pad, skin and the calcaneus.
Keeping it well
Heel wounds and pressure sores heal poorly when these vessels are narrowed, as in diabetes or long bed rest.
Related conditions
- Achilles tendon rupture
- Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Compartment syndrome
- Growing pains
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Lymphangitis
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Metabolic syndrome
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Restless legs syndrome
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Superficial thrombophlebitis
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Venomous snakebite