Anatom3DFlexor hallucis longus
Musculus flexor hallucis longus · Dlouhý ohýbač palce nohy
Muscles
Looks like
A deep calf muscle on the outer back of the shin whose tendon crosses behind the ankle to the tip of the big toe.
What it does
Bends the big toe and gives the final push-off in walking and on tiptoe.
Keeping it well
Ballet dancers get tendinitis of it behind the ankle; its tendon is used to repair old Achilles tears.
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