Anatom3DTibia
Tibia · Kost holenní
Skeleton
Looks like
The shinbone: the thick main bone of the lower leg, its front edge felt right under the skin.
What it does
Carries the body's weight from the knee to the ankle.
Keeping it well
Stress fractures come from ramping up running too fast; pain on one spot of the bone needs rest. Its thin skin covering makes open fractures common.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Achilles tendon rupture
- Acromegaly
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Compartment syndrome
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Growing pains
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Lymphangitis
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Osgood–Schlatter disease
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Restless legs syndrome
- Sarcoma
- Shin splints (medial tibial stress syndrome)
- Superficial thrombophlebitis
- Varicose veins
- Venomous snakebite
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency