Anatomy of the toe muscles

As for the muscles that move the toes, many of them are flexors. These include a muscle growing from the end of the outer cane, which descends, stretches along it, and sends a tendon that divides into two to bend the middle and fourth fingers. The other muscle is smaller than this one. Its origin is behind the shin. When she sends a tendon, her tendon splits into two, which bend the little finger and the second finger. Then from each of these tendons there arises a tendon adjoining a branch of the previous one, so that they become one tendon; this latter reaches out to the thumb and goes around it. The third muscle, which we have already mentioned, grows from the outer end of the inner cane and runs down between the two canes. It allocates a part from itself to bend the foot, and another part to the first joint of the big toe. These are the muscles that move the toes and lie on and behind the shin.

As for the muscles lying on the foot, ten of them escaped the attention of anatomists, and the first to recognize them was Galen. These muscles are adjacent to the five fingers; Each finger has two muscles, right and left. They move their fingers by pulling them - either in a forward direction, when both muscles move them together, or in a deviated direction, when only one muscle moves them.

Four of these muscles are located on the tarsus - one for each finger; and two special muscles are designed for the thumb and the little finger to bend them. These muscles are very fused with each other, so that if one of them suffers injury, this results in weakness in the action of the others in relation to their special functions, and also in relation to some replacement of the other fingers in their special functions. For this reason, it is difficult to bend some toes separately without bending the others.

Of the toe muscles, five muscles are located above the foot and their job is to move the toes outward. Five more lie below the foot; each of them connects the finger to the adjacent parts on the side of the internal gap and retracts it when moving towards the internal side. These five muscles, together with the two of the thumb and little finger, correspond to the seven muscles of the palm; The first ten muscles are also similar to the corresponding muscles of the palm.

The total number of muscles in the human body is five hundred and twenty-nine.