We’ve just completed 2 of our last 3 exams and there’s always one question which throws a lot of people – this year, that question was: “which nerves innervate the sole of the foot?”. We spend a lot of time thinking about the spinal nerves that innervate the foot but relatively little time considering the peripheral nerves themselves. These are just as important though, especially when assessing nerve damage from local injury or systemic disease such as diabetes.

Here’s a great diagram courtesy of Wikipedia: