A tendon is a type of body tissue that connects muscle to bone. If a tendon becomes inflamed — painful and swollen — the condition is called tendonitis. In your hands, there are so-called extensor ...

Hi Karrianne, this sounds like a muscle that lifts up your big toe (and also lifts your foot up at the ankle joint to a lesser extent) – the muscle extensor hallucis longus (EHL). It may be ...

The superior extensor retinaculum crosses over the front part of the ankle and binds the peroneus tertius, extensor hallucis longus, tibialis anterior, and the extensor digitorum longus tendons to the ...