It’s easy to take for granted all the ways your leg muscles stretch, flex, and work together to enable you to go about your daily life. Whether you walk, stand, sit, or run, it’s due to the work and ...

A team of scientists has constructed a robot leg that, like its natural model, is very energy efficient. BirdBot benefits from a foot-leg coupling through a network of muscles and tendons that extends ...

Microscopic tears of the muscle away from the lining of the bone causes the pain. Predisposing factors include overpronation and running on hard surfaces, and shin splints are more common in novice ...

A pulled or strained calf muscle affects the muscles and tendons in the back of the lower leg. It can decrease mobility making it difficult to walk. A person may feel pain in the: gastrocnemius muscle ...

Medically reviewed by Adam H. Kaplan, DPM Key Takeaways Ice application helps reduce swelling and control pain from peroneal tendonitis.Physical therapy can help restore normal ankle joint mechanics ...

Tendons and ligaments are fibrous bands of connective tissue. The main difference is the part of the anatomy they connect to. Both tendons and ligaments play roles in stabilizing the skeleton and ...

You have thousands of ligaments and tendons in your body. Both are made of connective tissue and can be torn or overstretched, but they differ in function and are essential to proper body mechanics.

Hitting middle age can be a shrinking experience. You're usually less active, so you don't use your muscles as much; or move the tendons that hold those muscles to your bones. The result is that they ...