The lower leg lies between the knee and ankle and works with the upper leg and foot to help perform key functions. In the leg are a number of bones, muscles, tendons, nerves and blood vessels.

When hip and knee pain strike, many runners suspect it’s their iliotibial (IT) band. While this thick band of tissue is a ...

You have tendons all over your body. They connect muscles to bones in your shoulder, elbow, wrist, knee, heel, and so on. The Achilles tendon in your heel is the largest one in your body.

Knee injuries are notoriously common, painstaking to resolve and often utterly avoidable. The problem isn't weak knees, per se, but poorly conditioned muscles, ligaments and tendons that support ...

Muscle strains and overuse injuries (such as tendonitis) are common causes of pain in the back of the knee while walking. Tendons (connective tissue that connects bone to bone) that cross the back ...

Ligament injuries ... Building stabilizing muscles around the knee joints improves movement quality and reduces pain and injury risk. • The dynamic movement of reverse lunging increases ...

The patellar tendon transmits the force of the thigh muscle to the lower leg and is thus responsible for extension and flexion in the knee joint. This is much rarer than a torn cruciate ligament ...

To ascertain whether detailed isokinetic knee muscle testing reflects the results of other functional measurements in footballers and to look for any correlations between quadriceps tendon thickness ...