Anatom3DLower limb
Membrum inferius · Dolní končetina
Muscles
Looks like
Hip, thigh, knee, leg and foot — the longest bones in the body over a springy arched foot.
What it does
Carrying the body's weight, walking, running and balance.
Keeping it well
Walking every day, strong thighs and calves, shoes that fit, weight kept off the joints.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Achilles tendon rupture
- Achondroplasia
- ACL & meniscus injury
- Acromegaly
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Ankle sprain
- Avascular necrosis (osteonecrosis)
- Baker's (popliteal) cyst
- Bone metastases and spinal cord compression
- Botulism
- Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
- Bunion & foot deformity
- Bursitis
- Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chilblains (pernio)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Clubfoot (talipes equinovarus)
- Compartment syndrome
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Dermatomyositis and polymyositis
- Developmental dysplasia of the hip
- Erectile dysfunction
- Fibromyalgia
- Flat feet (pes planus)
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Fungal nail infection (onychomycosis)
- Fungal skin infection (tinea)
- Ganglion cyst
- Gout
- Growing pains
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Haemophilia & bleeding disorders
- Hammer toe and claw toe
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Hernia (inguinal, hiatal, umbilical)
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Ingrown toenail
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Kawasaki disease
- Lyme disease
- Lymphangitis
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Marfan syndrome & connective tissue disorders
- Metabolic syndrome
- Morton's neuroma
- Muscle strain (pulled muscle)
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Osgood–Schlatter disease
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Peripheral artery disease
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Perthes disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Piriformis syndrome
- Plantar fasciitis
- Poliomyelitis
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Pre-eclampsia
- Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate disease)
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Rabies
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Reactive arthritis
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Runner's knee (patellofemoral pain)
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Sciatica
- Sepsis
- Septic arthritis
- Shin splints (medial tibial stress syndrome)
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
- Spinal muscular atrophy
- Superficial thrombophlebitis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Temporomandibular joint disorder
- Tendinopathy (tennis & golfer's elbow, Achilles, patellar)
- Tetanus
- Trichinellosis
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Venomous snakebite
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency