Ankle and Foot: Transverse-Plane Muscle Activity

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Introduction

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Top view · right foot
Tibialis posterior (deep, dashed)Dorsiflexors (sagittal)
Schematic muscle activity (relative scale)

Tibialis posterior and fibularis group; schematic activation

+ Increasing activity− Not plotted

Schematic relative amplitude; not measured values.

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Heel strike

Graph explanations and references

— Tibialis posterior — Fibularis longus & brevis
Overall muscle activity timing, not separately measured transverse-plane activity; heights are not EMG.

Net joint torque — small net abduction across stance. Combined effect at the joint; it does not identify one muscle. No published torque curve is available for this lesson, so none is drawn.

Pronation and supination combine three planes; the top view isolates their transverse components.

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Learning objectives

Relate tibialis posterior and fibularis activity to the transverse components of pronation and supination, and lower-leg rotation over a supported foot.