If your Achilles tendon ruptures, you might hear a pop, followed by an immediate sharp pain in the back of your ankle and lower leg. Surgery is often performed to repair the injury. Age and ...

Shin splints bring pain, swelling, tenderness or soreness along the front part of your lower leg.Treatment involves icing, ...

A graphic video showing the moment NFL star Aiden Hutchinson injured his leg has gone viral. Hutchinson, who plays defensive end for the Detroit Lions, sustained the injury on Sunday during the ...

It often occurs during exercise and at night. It commonly affects the calf muscle at the back of the lower leg but can also occur in the foot and thigh. There are many reasons a person may ...

The new device, which is described today in Nature Medicine, could help people with lower-leg amputations feel as if their prosthesis is part of them. “When you ask a patient ‘What is your ...

But what if I told you there might actually be a better option for toning those legs? As a certified personal trainer, I’ve helped countless clients improve their lower-body strength and I’m ...

they don’t include the prosthesis,” says MIT biophysicist Hugh Herr, SM ’93, one of the lead authors on the study, who lost both his lower legs in a climbing accident when he was 17.