Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome: Muscles Located at the Site of Pain

Table 1

The mean distance of the attachment of muscle fibres from the medial malleolus of tibia.

Name of muscle	Proximal (Inferomost)	Distal (Superomost)	Mean distance of muscle fibre attachment to tibia
FDL	33.3 ± 3.4	59.6 ± 2.7	26.3 ± 4.3
Soleus	49.5 ± 3.4	72.5 ± 1.8	23.0 ± 4.1

Note: all values are percentages of the length of the tibia bone ± standard deviation.