There are two bones in your lower leg, below your knee: the tibia (shin bone), and a smaller and thinner bone called the fibula. A broken leg or leg fracture occurs when one or more bones break or ...

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD Posterior tibial tendonitis refers to inflammation of the posterior tibial ...

Leg pain can be either injury related or ... Stress fractures cause pain actually within the involved bone, usually the tibia. At first, the pain is worst during activity and may be absent when ...

And yet, its humerus (an arm bone) is quite human-like. Characteristics of its tibia (a lower leg bone) indicate that A. anamensis walked on two feet. This species includes "Lucy," the 3.2 million ...

Broadly, it represents exertional lower leg pain centred on the posteromedial tibial border and being diffuse/linear (greater than 5 cm) rather than focal. Presentations of acute shin splints should ...

And he did so with a broken bone. "I fractured my tibia ... playing 34 1/2 minutes with a brace on his right knee and lower leg. Hawkins, a fifth-year graduate transfer, is one of four K-State ...