Anatom3DProper plantar digital branches of medial plantar nerve
Nervi digitales plantares proprii nervi plantaris medialis · Vlastní chodidlové prstové větve vnitřního chodidlového nervu
Nervous system
Looks like
Fine nerves running along the sides of the first three toes and the inner side of the fourth toe.
What it does
Bring feeling from the undersides and tips of these toes, and supply the nail beds.
Keeping it well
Loss of feeling in the toes in diabetes raises the risk of unnoticed wounds; daily foot checks matter.
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