Plantar Foot

Question 1

plantar aponeurosis

Answer 1

• superficial layer: longitudinal fibers; fuse with an reinfornce fibrous digital sheaths of long flexor tendons
• deep fibers: transverse fibers forms SUPERFICIAL TRANSVERSE METATARSAL LIGAMENTS

Question 2

transverse fasciculi

Answer 2

• transversely oriented bundle of deep fascia that reinforce webs of toes

Question 3

fibrous digital sheaths

Answer 3

• deep fascia
• anchored phalanges
• form fibroosseous tunnel that prevents bow stringing of flexor tendons that pass through them
• lined by synovial digital sheaths for lubrication

Question 4

medial compartments

Answer 4

• delineated by medial intermsucular septum
• contains flexor and abductor for great toe
• tendon of flexor hallucis longs
• medial plantar vessels and nerves

Question 5

lateral compartments

Answer 5

• 5th toes

- contains abductor and flexor muscles for digiti minimi

Question 6

central compartment

Answer 6

• deep to plantar aponeurosis
• contains flexor digitorum brevis, lumbricals, quadratus plantae, adductor hallucis, tendons flexor digitorum, and lateral plantar vessels and nerves

Question 7

interosseous compartment

Answer 7

• between dorsal and plantar interosseous fascia and contains interosseous muscles