Anatom3DTransverse head of adductor hallucis
Caput transversum musculi adductoris hallucis · Příčná hlava přitahovače palce nohy
Muscles
Looks like
A thin band of muscle across the sole under the heads of the third to fifth foot bones, ending on the big toe.
What it does
Pulls the big toe toward the others and holds the forefoot heads together.
Keeping it well
Part of the bunion story; surgeons may release it when straightening the big toe.
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