Our example tells us that you forgot your shin guards at soccer practice and managed to get kicked in the shin, the inner ankle, and the outer ankle. Yowchers. Alright. Which bone is getting kicked in each scenario? To help us out, we have a picture here of the lower leg. We have an anterior view of the bones of the lower leg starting at the patella all the way through the toes. And so this is going to be the left leg that we're looking at, and we want to know what bone makes up the shin. So, what bone is the shin? Well, as I look at this picture, the shin is this bigger, heavier bone right here. The front of that bone is what you get kicked in when you get kicked in the shin, and remember the bones of those lower legs, that's the tibia and the fibula, and the tibia is tough. The fibula is fine. So that bigger, tougher, heavier bone, that's going to be the tibia, specifically the anterior border of the tibia.
So then, which bone makes up your inner ankle bone? Well, again, as I look at this, the inner ankle bone, so that medial side here, is going to be right here. That's that inner ankle bone, and that's the same bone. This is part of the tibia. So the tibia makes up the inner ankle bone. There. Now I'm going to get a little bit more specific here. I'm just going to say, if you want to get really specific, you could say that that is the medial malleolus of the tibia. The malleolus is another name for the ankle bone.
So then, what bone makes up the outer ankle bone? Well, as I look at the picture, here's the outer ankle bone there. So what is that part of? Well, it's part of this thin bone here, the more lateral bone. And remember the thin bone, that's a finer bone. The tibia is tough. The fibula is fine. So this is going to be the fibula. And again, if I want to get more specific, I could say that that is going to be the lateral malleolus of the fibula. Alright. That's the answer to our question. More problems to follow, where are your shin guards?