tibialis posterior

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 human body.

Where the tibialis posterior is

It sits in the lower limb, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the tibialis posterior connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of hindlimb zeugopod.

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.

• Part of: hindlimb zeugopod.
• A kind of: flexor muscle and hindlimb zeugopod muscle.
• 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 lower limb, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the tibialis posterior connect to?

Part of: hindlimb zeugopod.

Is the tibialis posterior the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.