tibialis posterior in dogs

The Tibialis posterior is the most central of all the leg muscles, and is located in the posterior compartment of the leg. It is the key stabilizing muscle of the lower leg. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the tibialis posterior is

The Tibialis posterior is the most central of all the leg muscles, and is located in the posterior compartment of the leg. It is the key stabilizing muscle of the lower leg. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the tibialis posterior is

It sits in the hindlimb, within the muscular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the tibialis posterior connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. a kind of tibialis.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: tibial nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as tibialis caudalis, ibialis posticus, musculus tibialis posterior, posterior tibialis and tibialis posterior muscle. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001667, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: tibialis.
• inserts into: distal tarsal bone 1 and navicular bone of pes.
• originates from: fibula and tibia.
• antagonist of: tibialis anterior.
• Innervated by: tibial nerve.

Questions

Where is the tibialis posterior?

It sits in the hindlimb, within the muscular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the tibialis posterior connect to?

A kind of: tibialis.

Is the tibialis posterior the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.