Anatom3DCommon plantar digital branches of lateral plantar nerve
Nervi digitales plantares communes nervi plantaris lateralis · Společné chodidlové prstové větve zevního chodidlového nervu
Nervous system
Looks like
Branches of the lateral plantar nerve running forward in the sole toward the fourth and fifth toes.
What it does
Carry feeling to the fourth–fifth toe web and the outer side of the little toe.
Keeping it well
Can contribute to a Morton neuroma between the third and fourth toes, causing burning forefoot pain.
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