Anatom3DPlantar nerves
Nervi plantares · Chodidlové nervy
Nervous system
Looks like
Two nerves spreading across the sole from behind the inner ankle to the toes.
What it does
Feel the sole and work the small muscles of the foot.
Keeping it well
Foot checks and good shoes; burning or numbness in the sole is often diabetes or a squeezed nerve.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Botulism
- Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
- Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clubfoot (talipes equinovarus)
- Fibromyalgia
- Flat feet (pes planus)
- Ganglion cyst
- Gout
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Hammer toe and claw toe
- Lyme disease
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Morton's neuroma
- Myasthenia gravis
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Rabies
- Restless legs syndrome
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Tetanus
- Varicose veins
- Venomous snakebite
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies