Tight calves and shin splints are common issues runners face. But they shouldn’t be the only areas you pay attention to in your lower legs. If you’re ignoring a small stabilizing muscle called the ...

Runner's knee is a prevalent injury among athletes and can make exercising difficult. Here's how you can deal with knee pain, ...

Known as shin splints or tibial stress syndrome ... from the smaller anterior muscles of the lower leg to the larger posterior calf muscles that are better able to handle it," adds Irene.

You don’t want an ankle sprain, torn ligament, broken bone, or shin splints to be the reason ... including the gastrocnemius, soleus, posterior tibialis, flexor hallucis longus, and peroneal ...

The ankle evertors and inverters power the rotation of the ankle inward and outward. Strengthening these muscles is key in ...

You can do this with knee pads or splints. Keeping a pad ... the knee injures and inflames the tibial tubercle. That's the bony knob at the top of your shin, just below the kneecap.

The peroneal and posterior tibialis muscles can be strengthened with the exercises described in the section on shin splints (above). Stretching the Achilles tendon once you’ve warmed up with easy ...

“The posterior tibialis is a muscle that originates on the back, or posterior, part of the tibia and fibula (your lower leg bones), up close to your knee,” explains Cathlin ...