Anatom3DFibularis longus
Musculus fibularis (peroneus) longus · Dlouhý lýtkový sval
Muscles
Looks like
A long muscle on the outer side of the lower leg; its tendon runs behind the outer ankle bone and across the sole.
What it does
Turns the sole outward, points the foot down and braces the foot's arches; helps stop ankle sprains.
Keeping it well
Its tendon can tear or slip over the ankle bone after a sprain; pain behind the outer ankle that persists needs a check.
Related conditions
- Achilles tendon rupture
- Botulism
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Compartment syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Growing pains
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Lymphangitis
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Muscular dystrophy
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Superficial thrombophlebitis
- Tetanus
- Varicose veins
- Venomous snakebite