Anatom3DLower leg
Crus · Bérec
Muscles
Looks like
The shin bone at the front and the slimmer fibula outside, with the calf behind.
What it does
Carries weight to the foot and drives push-off.
Keeping it well
Build up running slowly, shoes with life left in them. Calf pain with swelling can be a clot.
Its parts
- Skin of lower leg
- Tibia
- Fibula
- Gastrocnemius
- Soleus
- Tibialis anterior
- Peroneal (fibular) muscles
- Achilles tendon
- Tibial & common peroneal nerves
- Tibial arteries
- Deep leg veins
- Extensor digitorum longus
- Extensor hallucis longus
- Flexor digitorum longus
- Flexor hallucis longus
- Plantaris
- Popliteus
- Posterior tibial vein
- Set of dorsal digital arteries
- Small saphenous vein
- Tibialis posterior
- Interosseous membrane of leg
- Anterior intermuscular septum of leg
- Crural fascia
- Posterior intermuscular septum of leg
- Transverse intermuscular septum of leg
Related conditions
- Achilles tendon rupture
- Acromegaly
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Botulism
- Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
- Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Clubfoot (talipes equinovarus)
- Compartment syndrome
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Fibromyalgia
- Flat feet (pes planus)
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Growing pains
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Lyme disease
- Lymphangitis
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Metabolic syndrome
- Muscle strain (pulled muscle)
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Osgood–Schlatter disease
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Peripheral artery disease
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Pre-eclampsia
- Rabies
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Sepsis
- Shin splints (medial tibial stress syndrome)
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Superficial thrombophlebitis
- Tendinopathy (tennis & golfer's elbow, Achilles, patellar)
- Tetanus
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Venomous snakebite
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency