Muscles
Peroneus Brevis Trigger Points
Symptom Area: Leg, Ankle and Foot
Peroneus Brevis Trigger Points are explored here through their location and referred pain pattern. Muscle knots is an everyday term used for tender muscular spots; myofascial pain describes pain involving muscle and its surrounding connective tissue. Everts and plantarflexes the foot.
Where you feel it
When the Peroneus Brevis holds active trigger points, you usually notice it as lateral ankle pain, shin splint-type pain and weak ankles. Where the pain spreads: Lateral ankle and the lateral foot. What often sets it off: Ankle sprains, lateral overload.
Overview
Everts and plantarflexes the foot. Trigger points here are common in everyday and athletic populations and frequently contribute to the referred pain patterns described below.
Trigger point locations
Lower lateral lower leg.
Referred pain pattern
Lateral ankle and the lateral foot.
Palpation & testing
Palpate the muscle belly along its accessible course. Reproduction of the patient's familiar pain on palpation supports involvement.
Common causes
Ankle sprains, lateral overload.
Self-care & clinical treatment
Balance and eversion work. Clinically: needling.
Treatment protocol
For Peroneus Brevis, the general protocol applies: sustained pressure release on the taut band, then stretch and active movement in the newly gained range.
Position and palpation: Palpate the muscle belly along its accessible course.
Regional precaution for clinicians: In the calf, ankle and foot the tibial nerve and posterior tibial vessels in the deep posterior compartment, the common peroneal nerve at the fibular neck and the plantar neurovascular bundle guide needle placement.
Primary Symptoms
Secondary Symptoms
Often confused with
These muscles cause the same primary symptoms, so they are checked together:
Related muscles in this region
References
- • Travell & Simons — Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction
Medically reviewed by: Marco Aruffo — physiotherapist since 2006, specialised in myofascial pain · Last reviewed:
