Flexor digitorum brevis muscle

Beginning: tuber calcanei, plantar aponeurosis

Attachment: by tendons to 2.-5. finger to the plantar surface of the middle phalanges

• The musculus flexor digitorum longus passes through the cleft of the tendons

Innervation: n. plantaris medialis (branch of nervus tibialis) (L₅–S₁)

Function: flexion of proximal interphalangeal joints 2.-5. finger

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References

• ŠIHÁK, Radomír – GRIM, Miloš. Anatomy. 2nd, edit. and add edition. Prague : Grada Publishing, 2002. 470 pp. vol. 1. ISBN 80-7169-970-5.