LEA Plantar Foot Part 3 Flashcards
Medial and lateral plantar nerves
- Branch from tibial nerve in the tarsal tunnel, deep to flexor retinaculum
- Passes through tarsal tunnel and porta pedis to enter foot
Lateral Plantar Nerve
Found between layers 1 and 2
Medial to lateral plantar artery
motor innervation of lateral plantar nerve
- Abductor digiti minimi
- Quadratus Plantae
- Lumbricals (2-4),
- Adductor hallucis
- Flexor digiti minimi brevis
- Opponens digiti minimi
- Plantar and dorsal interossei
Cutaneous innervation of lateral plantar nerve
- Lateral 1/3 of midfoot and forefoot
- Plantar aspect of lateral 1 ½ toes and dorsal nailbeds
Articular innervation of lateral plantar nerves
- Calcaneocuboid, lateral cuneonavicular, 3rd cuneometatarsal, lateral intercuneiform (between intermediate and lateral cuneiform), cuneocuboid and cuboidonavicular
- 2-5th MTP
- 2-4th intermetatarsal and 5th IP joints
Lateral Plantar Nerve Branching Pattern:
- Branch to ADM muscle (inferior calcaneal nerve; “Baxters nerve)
- Branch to QP muscle
- Divides into Superficial and Deep Branches around base of 5th met
Superficial branch of lateral plantar nerve muscular innervation
-FDMB
-3rd plantar interosseous and 4th dorsal (interosseous
interossei in the 4th intermetatarsal space)
Superficial branch of lateral plantar nerve cutaneous innervation
to lateral plantar foot, lateral and medial plantar 5th toe and lateral plantar 4th toe
Deep branch of lateral plantar nerve passes
deep to adductor hallucis (between layers 3 and 4)
Deep branch of lateral plantar nerve muscular innervation
-lumbricals 2-4
-adductor hallucis
-plantar interossei 1-2 and dorsal interossei 1-3
(Interossei in the 1st – 3rd intermetatarsal spaces)
Deep branch of lateral plantar nerve articular branches to
- 2nd and 3rd intermetatarsal joints (between 2nd and 3rd and 3rd and 4th metatarsal bases)
- 2-4 MTP joints
branches of the superficial branch of lateral plantar nerve
- Proper plantar digital nerve 10 (lateral plantar cutaneous of 5th digit
- 4th common plantar digital nerve (4 intermetatarsal space)
- Communicating branch (connects with 3rd common digital plantar nerve from medial plantar)
The proper plantar digital nerves innervate
the nailbeds and dorsum of the distal digits
Proper plantar digital nerve 10
Supplies cutaneous to plantar lateral 5th toe, digital tuft, nail
Motor to FDMB, 3rd plantar and 4th dorsal interossei
4th common plantar digital nerve
- Passes plantar to deep transverse metatarsal ligament, becomes cutaneous near MTP joint
- 8th proper plantar digital nerve (lateral plantar 4th toe)
- 9th proper plantar digital nerve (medial plantar 5th toe)
Medial Plantar Nerve
-Larger than lateral plantar nerve
-Lateral to medial plantar artery
-Passes within the 1st layer between abductor hallucis and FDB muscles (deep to abductor hallucis)
[Some also say between layers 1 and 2]
Medial Plantar Nerve motor innervation
Abductor hallucis
FDB
FHB
1st lumbrical
Medial Plantar Nerve motor innervation
- Abductor hallucis
- FDB
- FHB
- 1st lumbrical
Medial Plantar Nerve cutaneous innervation
- Medial 2/3 of midfoot and forefoot
- Plantar aspect medial 3 ½ toes and dorsal nailbeds
Medial Plantar Nerve articular innervation
- Talonavicular, cuneonavicular (medial and intermediate cuneiforms), medial intercuneiform (between medial and intermediate)
- Joint between medial cuneiform and base of 2nd metatarsal
- IP joints of digits 1-4
- 1st MTP joint
Proper plantar digital nerve 1 (of hallux)
- cutaneous of plantar medial hallux
- Also called the medial branch of the medial plantar nerve
- Also supplies motor branch to FHB
1st – 3rd Common plantar digital nerves travel in
their respective metatarsal spaces
plantar pass plantar to deep transverse metatarsal ligament, becomes cutaneous near
MTP joint. Arise from the lateral branch of medial plantar nerve.
Give off proper digital plantar nerves
1st – 3rd Common plantar digital nerves
1st Common plantar digital nerve (1st intermetatarsal space)
- Supplies motor to: FHB and 1st lumbrical
- Proper plantar digital nerve 2: cutaneous lateral plantar aspect of hallux
- Proper plantar digital nerve 3: cutaneous medial plantar aspect of 2nd toe