shin splints

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MARIAH

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is there anything to do for them or do i just have to wait it out?

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-mariah
 
actually last year this girl on my bball team had these air brace things that are like the ones for ur ankle. she said they worked other than that i heard icing helps. id ask ur doctor about the braces though

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youll have to wait it out for a while, but when you get back into it get new shoes or get insoles so that it doesnt come back again.

-Thom Savery
 
wait it out...get better shoes, or insoles, maybe run off the shoulder of the road where the ground gives more.

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Shin splints is such a broad term. It's stress to your medial tibial and the pain is felt in the anterior part of the shin. It could be anything from a stress fracture(prob not), muscle strain, or chronic anterior compartment syndrome. Is it from overtraining on hard surfaces or do you also pronote when you run? How bad is the pain? Does pain occur: only after running, before and after running but doesn't really affect your performance, before/during/and after running and it affects your performance, or so severe that you can't even run? If shin splints are due to pronation, you need new shoes and maybe orthotics too. If this is a recent injury, then you need to concentrate on reducing inflammation, pain and point tenderness. Ideally, you should take 1-2 weeks off of running and avoid bearing weight on them as much as possible. Ice massage (avg 7 min) daily and do static stretches to your anterior and posterior muscles (toe and heel walks to strech and strengthen calves and achilles tendon) 2-3 times daily. Keep your cardio in check with the exercise bike or swimming. Inner Longitudinal arch taping or orthotics to help with the weight bearing is ideal throughout injury. Once pain subsides to where you no longer feel any pain during daily activities and it can bear your weight, start rehabbing. Continue to Static stretch the achilles tendon (heel walk position;hold for 30 seconds;4 sets of 3 during the day). But if you have a coach like I did, and need to start running the next day then get a shin splint taping or a brace to act like a counterforce and take the pressure off of your tibia and mallelous. Icing for 5-15 minutes after running is really important. Do stretch cord exercises. If your school's facilities can accommodate it, transverse friction massages, ultrasounds, and modalities will do WONDERS and you'll be back in shape in less time. The main thing you need is ice and rest and no running, but if you have to keep running (even if it's on grass and a lighter workout)they won't get better and will take longer to heal, worse comes to worse, stress fracture. Don't worry, you'll get better, but I know how annoying they are when you have them. Damn, I'm actually learning something in college...

~julieT~

 
im pretty sure that you could have said things like front instead of anterior, just so everyone would understand it. and this is all stuff that i learned in highschool... kenesiology rocks (i wish i could spell)

-Thom Savery
 
i had horrible shin splints for a long time and finally i got a bootfitter to but some foam in the front of the tongue of the boot on the outside. it eliminates the space between your shin and the boot's tongue. but for now just do up your boots really tight so theres no gap between your shins and the tongue of the boot.

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theres things to do called toe taps to help prevent shin splints. You get down on one knee with one foot out on front and lean over with your hands touching the ground and tap that toe. After a while your shin will begin to get sore. This helps prevernt them, the soreness is very temporary and vanishes as soon as you stand up.

 
alright thanks you guys ill try some of this. um.....earlier this year i fractured the upper part of my tibia and tore my acl playing soccer so i only just started running again a couple of weeks ago. so my knee on the left side is also acting funny........ill try some of this stuff and see how it goes......either way i can take a week or so off of running

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-mariah
 
Yeap, only reason why I know all that stuff about shin splints is I just had to work on one of our baseball players who's suffering from it. Sorry, it never occurred to me that there would be a problem with me using anterior figuring that if a baseball player knew what I was talking about...(but I was pointing to the places so that probably helped). My apologies. You're lucky that you had classes like that at your highschool, it def gives the students an edge at my school. But this is all new to me so it makes it fun. You're right, kinesiology kicks ass, biomechanics is even better! ~Juliet~

 
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