The calf muscle is made of two major muscles: A calf strain is a tearing injury, most commonly to the gastrocnemius or soleus muscle. Most often, the injury occurs in the medial gastrocnemius.

Enter: soleus exercises. This wide, flat muscle in your lower leg tends to get less attention than the more prominent muscle of your calves—a.k.a., your gastrocnemius (or gastroc), which the ...

Castellanos has been injured again and will be out for at least two weeks. The Lazio forward remained on the bench throughout ...

The calf is a muscle located in the back of the lower leg, and it is strained when it is stretched (or torn) due to sudden ...

Rivers said of the league's leading vote-getter playing in the exhibition. Antetokounmpo suffered a strain in the soleus muscle in that left calf on April 9 of last season, forcing him to miss the ...

A New Injury Adds to Christensen's Struggles Barcelona confirmed that Christensen has sustained a soleus muscle injury in his right leg during training ahead of the Champions League clash against ...

Not quite. Antetokounmpo’s season ended prematurely last season when he strained his soleus muscle, which is part of the calf (along with the larger gastrocnemius muscle and plantaris).