Early season shin bang :(

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yzzid

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Hey NS. I have been riding the same pair of boots for seven seasons. I have skied about 5 days this season and have experienced some severe shin bang while riding. I haven’t gotten this in the past. I need to take a week off because I landed a little back seat today really

hard. Are there any remedies for this? I have been icing and taking ibprofin religiously. I want to get back out there but don’t want to ruin my shins for the season. How long will it last? Should I get new boots? It seems that the padding has lost its strength and my boots don’t get as tight as they used to. Is it a boot issue or an ability issue? Does shin bang come from poor skiing ability or simply having an old bad fitting boot? I want to know how to fix this before I ruin my shins for the season. Any advice appreciated.
 
Sounds like you might need new boots, but also you can get some of those compression tube bandages, cut them to a length where you can double them up and wear them around your shins under your socks, no idea why it helps but it does.

Also work on technique to get out of the backseat.
 
There’s like a subgenre of shin bang where you land backseat and leverage your leg over the back of the boot. That might be what you did. Yeah get new boots but also put in those little spoiler pads that come with them to fill up any extra space in the back.
 
I too am recovering from some bad shin bang rn. Landed switch in pow and my boot slammed in to my shin before I ejected and I then proceeded to hobble my ass home from the hill.

Here's what I've been doing. Get an icepack and a christmas stocking (good timing eh?) and use the stocking to hold the icepack against your shin and elevate your shin while lying down, ice it for 20min ish intervals. Shin bang pain from landing backseat can also be related to the muscle on your shin being pulled away from your bone, so a good exercise is to take a wet towel, put it on the ground and use your affected leg's foot to try and scrunch the towel up with your toes as this works to rebuild the muscle. I am very much not a medical professional (or any sort of professional for that matter) but a buddy of mine who is a patroller recommended that exercise and it seems to have helped. But yeah, you should probably get some new liners too homie. Hope it feels better soon

**This post was edited on Dec 24th 2023 at 4:26:08pm
 
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I too am recovering from some bad shin bang rn.
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I've done this technique in the past and it has worked wonders:

[video]https://youtu.be/ztzTmHfae-k?si=fjbdXdQ0RFUOdndW[/video]
 
topic:yzzid said:
Hey NS. I have been riding the same pair of boots for seven seasons. I have skied about 5 days this season and have experienced some severe shin bang while riding. I haven’t gotten this in the past. I need to take a week off because I landed a little back seat today really

hard. Are there any remedies for this? I have been icing and taking ibprofin religiously. I want to get back out there but don’t want to ruin my shins for the season. How long will it last? Should I get new boots? It seems that the padding has lost its strength and my boots don’t get as tight as they used to. Is it a boot issue or an ability issue? Does shin bang come from poor skiing ability or simply having an old bad fitting boot? I want to know how to fix this before I ruin my shins for the season. Any advice appreciated.
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Landing backseat especially while learning new jump tricks is pretty much unavoidable, i got really bad shin bang last few seasons and icing, compression, and using the foam roller on my shins and calves (it is supposed to hurt a lot but the more it hurts the more it will help trust me) tightening my boots a lot also helped, and also if your boots are 7 years old it might be time for at least a new liner
 
Let me guess, you have full tilts?

But fr, Yeah if somehow the shell is still in good shape and the toe and heel lugs aren't worn down after 7 seasons, I'd recommend getting an Intuition Liner. But likely the shell isn't in good shape so I think It might be time for new boots.
 
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