Plantar Foot: Part 3 Flashcards
Nerve supply to plantar foot
- Medial/lateral plantar nerves
Lateral plantar nerve location
- Found between layers 1 and 2
- Medial to lateral plantar artery
Lateral plantar nerve motor innervation
- Abductor digiti minimi
- Quadratus Plantae
- Lumbricals (2-4)
- Adductor hallucis
- Flexor digiti minimi brevis
- Opponens digiti minimi
- Plantar and dorsal interossei
Lateran plantar nerve cutaneous innervation
- Lateral 1/3 of midfoot and forefoot
- Plantar aspect of lateral 1 ½ toes and dorsal nailbeds
Lateral plantar nerve articular innervation
- Calcaneocuboid
- Lateral cuneonavicular
- 3rd cuneometatarsal
- Lateral intercuneiform (between intermediate and lateral cuneiform)
- Cuneocuboid
- Cuboidonavicular
- 2-5th MTP joint
- 2-4th intermetatarsal joint
- 5th IP joint
Lateral plantar nerve branches to
- ADM muscle (inferior calcaneal nerve; “Baxters nerve”)
- QP muscle
Superficial branch (lateral plantar nerve) muscular innervation
- FDMB
- 3rd plantar interosseous
- 4th dorsal interosseous
- (Interossei in the 4th intermetatarsal space)
Superficial branch (lateral plantar nerve) articular innervation
- 4th and 5th MTP
- 4th intermetatarsal joint (between 4th and 5th met bases)
- 4th and 5th IP joints
Superficial branch (lateral plantar nerve) cutaneous innervation
- Lateral plantar foot
- Lateral and medial plantar 5th toe
- Lateral plantar 4th toe
Deep branch (lateral plantar nerve) pathway
- Passes deep to adductor hallucis
- Between layers 3 and 4
Deep branch (lateral plantar nerve) muscular innervation
- Lumbricals 2-4
- Adductor hallucis
- Plantar interossei 1-2
- Dorsal interossei 1-3
- (Interossei in the 1st – 3rd intermetatarsal spaces)
Deep branch (lateral plantar nerve) articular innervation
- 2nd and 3rd intermetatarsal joints (between 2nd and 3rd and 3rd and 4th metatarsal bases)
- 2-4 MTP joints
Branches of superficial branch
- Proper plantar digital nerve 10
- 4th common plantar digital nerve
- Communicating branch
Proper plantar digital nerve 10
- Lateral plantar cutaneous of 5th digit
4th common plantar digital nerve pathway
- 4th intermetatarsal space
- Passes plantar to deep transverse metatarsal ligament
- Becomes cutaneous near MTP joint
Communicating branch
- Connects with 3rd common digital plantar nerve from medial plantar
Proper plantar digital nerves innervate
- Nailbeds and dorsum of the distal digits
Medial plantar nerve pathway
- 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 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
Medial plantar nerve innervation and branching
- Abductor hallucis
- FDB
- Branches into medial and lateral branches