Talk:Human leg

message: A photo of a woman's legs are not appropriate for this article. Looks rather silly. Changed to drawing from 1918 Gray's Anatomy. Why not? 
--Is it offensive? I think not. Get a life; stop complaining about such inconsequentialities.
:Agreed.  The legs are human legs, they are appropriate for the article.  If they happend to be attractive legs, then that's incidental.  This argument has no merit. Lengis 05:05, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The picture looks kind of ridiculus. I agree with a more functional picture that shows legs in action. It's not that the one now is offensive or inappropriate, it just looks silly. CerealBabyMilk 00:52, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

text: I would do anything to see this picture of PG-13 legs lmao won't someone PLEASE think of the children LaymansLinguist (talk) 08:19, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: I'd like to nearly rewrite this article. I started out rewriting the lead section. But I guess I want to talk it over from here.
The article should cover anatomy, obviously, but there are a lot of other aspects. An article on fingernails, for instance, would cover the sociology and psychology of fingernails, their history, uses, mentions in literature, etc. That's hard to do for "leg", though, since the subject is so broad. What do legs represent to humans? How do legs affect humans? What are the common uses? This is so broad as to be nearly impossible. I tried to cover that in the lead section a little bit, but I'm not sure what to do there.
About anatomy, it's easier, but it shouldn't just be lists, as it is now. It ought to be in paragraph form. How should we organize it? Should it be bones, then muscles, then blood flow and other aspects?
Or should it be ankles, then calves, the knees, then thighs? I would prefer the latter, I think, with both bones and muscled incorporated into each section.
So sections of ankle, calf, knee, and thigh? Does that sound right?
Note also that there is a separate article for Leg (anatomy). Should these be merged? If not, how should the content be divided? Quadell 19:37, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite 

message: when ur leg falls asleep how do u make it stop hurting —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.218.17.5 (talk • contribs) 12:43, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sleep 

message: Clear duplication of material; needless to have two articles LT910001 (talk) 12:55, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Lower limb]] 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: There are a couple of sections that need some work:
*WP:NOTPROMOTE: All that stuff on those Kinesiology tapes is really bordering on promotion. The link leads to an article titled Elastic therapeutic tape which for one thing, does not mention the term "Kinesiology" even once, and, to judge by the talk page, is also very controversial as to the quality of existing studies.
*WP:MANUAL: Some parts are written in a guidebook style, the first person plural subject making it sound particularly so:
:"The chances of damaging our lower extremities will be reduced by having knowledge about some activities associated with lower leg injury and developing a correct form of running..."
:"The lower leg and ankle are very important body parts to keep moving well and exercise as they are the base of our entire body."
:The section on exercises also is very close to guidebook style.
*Unsourced and questionable content:
:"the absence of grown hair makes nicks, scratches and bruises heal faster because of the reduced microbial population on shaved skin." (Citation requested since March 2017)
:That, as far as I am aware, is a common belief which has led to millions of patients getting shaved before surgery.
:There has recently been a study which has revealed that the opposite is in fact true: Shaving produces lots of additional micro-injuries which open the doors wide for all kinds of infections. I can't find the study right now, but I wasn't going to put the information in the article anyway. So the claim currently made in the article should better get some really good sources. 
*Some things simply don't make sense.
:Like the text under the photo: "Mountaineers have heightened risk for serious leg injuries. This is generally due to the lack of medical help in mountainous areas..."
:This makes it sound like the lack of medical help etc. is the cause of those injuries, which is obviously nonsense. If mountaineers have a heightened risk for serious injuries, it's because of their mountaineering activities. The lack of medical help may afterwards lead to serious or permanent damage from these injuries, but it's not their cause.
--93.212.232.58 (talk) 22:22, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Various issues 

message: The Kinesio tape section (Preventative Tools) should be removed completely. This is clearly just promotion of a product, not least a product that is widely regarded as the infatuation of complete psuedoscintific nonsense.
This page is a vital article on human anatomy, specifically on the leg, and yet amongst other anatomy related sections, the 'preventative tools' paragraph (within clinical significance) gives a ridiculously biased view using one isolated study, that seems like it is probably an undergrad thesis, which has never been cited except by the same authors when they published a refined version later that yet. It fails to mention the wealth of science that reviews the literature as lacking any good evidence for 'KT' being useful for any clinical purpose at all. Thus, I suspect it is placed solely for promotion. Unless the section was already there, I suspect placing it within the scope of 'preventative tools' (an odd title, anyway) and having approx one sentence talking about stretching, and one sentence at the end talking about shoes, and then the bulk of the paragraph talking about a highly controversial, probably useless intervention, was an attempt to hide the blatant promotion.
Thus, I believe the whole paragraph adds nothing at all to this article except product placement, promotion of a discredited idea, and dilution of the evidence based and impartial content in the article as a whole.
At least, the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic_therapeutic_tape does give more than one source to demonstrate the widely held view of KT as pseudoscience, and indeed those sources branch out to many more.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.80.185.169 (talk) 14:46, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Promotion (Kinesio tape), Needs removal 

message: There's nothing else on Wikipedia on it right now other than this article. We include it in the lead but omit it from the Structure section. I added it. Assuming someone removes it insisting on a cite, kindly use the OED or any other English source on human body vocab but don't actually remove it like someone must've previously done. xD — LlywelynII 08:35, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Shin

message: Lower limb should have its own article, as according to the article "hindlimb" the term "lower limb" also applies to other bipedal animals such as primates, and as such when linking "lower limb" on non human-centric articles it would link to this article which is wrong as those animals do not have human legs. 
So, I would suggest making "lower limb" its own article to avoid that problem. 
Thanks. 2001:FB1:94:1398:ADA1:1641:A6C1:81B1 (talk) 17:10, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lower limb split proposal.