Anatom3DTibialis anterior
Musculus tibialis anterior · Přední sval holenní
Muscles
Looks like
The muscle along the outer side of the front of the shinbone, its tendon crossing the front of the ankle.
What it does
Lifts the foot and toes so they clear the ground with each step.
Keeping it well
Pain along the shin in runners is often shin splints. A foot that slaps down or drags suddenly is foot drop and needs a nerve check.
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
- Shin splints (medial tibial stress syndrome)
- Superficial thrombophlebitis
- Tetanus
- Varicose veins
- Venomous snakebite