Anatom3DMedial plantar nerve
Nervus plantaris medialis · Vnitřní chodidlový nerv
Nervous system
Looks like
The larger branch of the tibial nerve running forward along the inner sole.
What it does
Moves the big toe and a few sole muscles and brings feeling from the inner sole and first three and a half toes.
Keeping it well
Compressed in tarsal tunnel syndrome or by runners' arch supports ('jogger's foot'), causing burning in the sole.
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