Anatom3DCommon plantar digital branches of medial plantar nerve
Nervi digitales plantares communes nervi plantaris medialis · Společné chodidlové prstové větve vnitřního chodidlového nervu
Nervous system
Looks like
Branches of the medial plantar nerve running forward in the sole toward the first four toes.
What it does
Carry feeling to the webs between the first to fourth toes.
Keeping it well
Thickening between the third and fourth metatarsal heads (Morton neuroma) causes burning pain; wider shoes help.
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