Anatom3DProper plantar digital branches of lateral plantar nerve
Nervi digitales plantares proprii nervi plantaris lateralis · Vlastní chodidlové prstové větve zevního chodidlového nervu
Nervous system
Looks like
Fine nerves running along the sides of the little toe and the outer side of the fourth toe.
What it does
Bring feeling from the undersides and tips of these toes.
Keeping it well
Numbness here in both feet can be an early sign of diabetic or other neuropathy — check your feet and see a doctor.
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