Nerves
Nerve supply to the posterior compartment of the leg
What is the Tibial Nerve?
Muscle for ankle plantar flexion and knee flexion
What is the gastrocnemius muscle?
Origin of the posterior tibial artery
What is the popliteal artery?
Layer where the flexor hallucis brevis, adductor hallucis and flexor digiti minimi brevis are located.
What is the third layer of the sole?
Nerve which innervates the first lumbrical muscle of the foot.
Muscle which functions as a great toe flexor, weak ankle plantarflexor and supports the medial longitudunal arch of the foot
What is the flexor hallucis longus?
Artery which descends behind the fibular, within the substance of the FHL or posterior to it
What is the fibular artery?
Tarsal bone which maintains the medial longitudunal arch of the foot
What is the navicular bone?
Muscle which inserts primarily to the navicular, and also the cuneiforms, cuboid and base of the 2nd to 4th metatarsals
What is the tibialis posterior?
Tendon which passes behind the medial malleolus deep to the flexor retinaculum then under the sustentaculum tali deep to the flexor digitorum longus.
What is the flexor hallucis longus tendon?
These are the structures which pass within the tarsal tunnel
What are the tendons of the flexor hallucis muscle, flexor digitorum muscle, tibialis posterior muscle, posterior tibial nerve and posterior tibial artery?
Formed when the medial and lateral plantar veins unite.
What is the posterior tibial venae comitantes?
Holds the fibularis longus tendon at the inferior surface of the cuboid
What is the long plantar ligament?
Mixed sensory and motor nerve which splits off from the lateral plantar nerve as it provides innervation to the abductor digiti minimi
What is Baxter's nerve? (Inferior calcaneal nerve)