This week we are going to discuss a common and painful condition of the calf which occurs in patients generally between the ages of 40 and 60 and is usually quite harmless but is often confused with ...

Introduction Recent cadaveric studies have identified a plantaris tendon in 98–100% of specimens (Saxena,2000; van Sterkenberg 2007) and a number of studies have identified a potential relationship ...

Objectives When re-operating patients with midportion Achilles tendinosis, having had a poor effect of ultrasound (US) and Doppler-guided scraping, the author found the involvement of the plantaris ...

Studies in anatomy prioritize focus on the vital organs, including those than can regenerate — obviously a sensible move — but arguably the most fascinating body parts are the nonvital ones. Vestigial ...