Anatom3DThird lumbrical of foot
Musculus lumbricalis tertius pedis · Třetí červovitý sval nohy
Muscles
Looks like
A small worm-like muscle in the sole, from two long flexor tendons to the fourth toe.
What it does
Bends the fourth toe at its base joint while keeping its end joints straight.
Keeping it well
Weakness contributes to toe deformities.
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