Anatom3DTibial tuberosity
Tuberositas tibiae · Drsnatina holenní kosti
Skeleton
Looks like
A bump on the front of the shin bone a few centimetres below the kneecap.
What it does
Anchors the patellar tendon, through which the quadriceps straightens the knee.
Keeping it well
In growing, sporty teenagers it swells and hurts (Osgood–Schlatter disease), settling when growth ends. Kneeling pain here is common and harmless.
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