Look for thinner muscles. When a dog loses muscle mass, the muscles will look visibly thinner. You may also notice a difference in how they feel; your hand may suddenly reach all the way around your dog's leg, when it didn't before, for instance. Sometimes, this type of muscle loss will only affect certain parts of the body.
The triceps surae (/ËtraÉªsÉps ËsjÊÉriË/) (from Latin caput and sura. three-headed [muscle] of the calf) is a pair of muscles located at the calf-the two-headed gastrocnemius and the soleus.These muscles both insert into the calcaneus, the bone of the heel of the human foot, and form the major part of the muscle of the posterior leg, commonly known as the calf muscle.he triceps surae (/ËtraÉªsÉps ËsjÊÉriË/) (from Latin caput and sura. three-headed [muscle] of the calf) is a pair of muscles located at the calf-the two-headed gastrocnemius and the soleus.
The calcaneal tendon is the strongest and thickest tendon in the body. It is able to withhold a stress of about four times a person's body weight when walking and its narrowest part (above its insertion) is four centimeters thick. The tendon starts in the middle of the calf and extends approximately 15 centimeters in length, down to the heel, and passes vertically down, behind the ankle.