What follows is a simple way to ease your shinbang hardships.

ButteredToast.

ButteredToast.

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(Note: This is for shins that already have shinbang, it is simply a method to ease the pain while your shins heal.)

What you'll need:

-An old rubbery mousepad

-An exacto knife

-A sharpie

I decided a lot of people could benefit from this. It worked for me.

Here's what you do.

-Find an old mousepad lying around that you don't care for. It's important that it is a thick rubbery one made from neoprene.

-Cut it in half, shortways, or "Hamburger style" as some may call it.

-Next, take one of the halves of the mousepad, place it on one of your shins vertically, so that it covers most of the bottom half of your shin, and wraps around your leg a little.

-Push on your shin, and find your painful spots. Draw a rectangle around the spot where it hurts on your shin. Repeat the last two steps with the other half of the mousepad.

-Cut the rectangles out that you drew.

Before skiing, place these inside your boot. The whole idea of it is that it keeps the already bruised part of your shin from pushing on the tongue of your boot too hard, thus easing the pain while they heal, as opposed to taking a break from skiing entirely.

Hope this helps you guys.
 
yea def if you have shinbangs or get them, but ever since ive been wearing like socks with padding in and around the shin area, i havent had one single problem
 
good idea! however, i feel like there are multiple kinds of shin bang. there is the one that comes from actually banging your shins. then there is that one that is like inside your leg that is more like the bone and muscle getting pulled apart. from overshooting jumps and landing backseat. thats what i really hate
 
^yeah I think thats the most common/painful type. Its sorta like shin splints your entire shinbone hurts whenever you put any skiboot pressure on it at all. I don't think that there's any modification to the boots that could help with it. The only way to make it better is to stop skiing for a couple days and the only way to prevent it is to not case or land backseat. It sucks but its just the way it is...
 
Sounds sick. I'll agree wiith others and say this helps for the impact from bumping shins around alot and not from landing backseat.
 
Meh, good idea, but anyone know what to do with pressure spots that bruise? I've been locking my boots down kinda tight to combat the nasty boot bang I usually get (it works too!), but I've got these nasty ass pressure bruises below the muscle on the back of my calf, like on the bone... wondering if theres a way to alleviate them.

Also, for the doctors out there, can pressure bruises turn into stress fractures?
 
i wrap my shin in tensor bandages then put a real tall sock over to hole the tensor there.

i havent had a single case of shinbang all season
 
for the first question you might just want to "blow out" that area of the boot. if you dont know what it means, its when the ski shop guys heat that part of your boots shell a bit and push it out, i dont know if thats done on the back of the boot though.
 
That shit sucks, landed deep off some rollers in the backseat in a skiercross race for my school and killed my leg. Went to the trainer to get it worked out and she cut a 4"X2" piece of memory foam for me to use as "padding". I don't think shes ever seen a ski boot before haha
 
You're missing the point. The mousepad thing works like how you would treat a blister on your foot. You take duct tape or moleskin, cut a hole in it and put the blister through the hole, so that your shoe pushes on the moleskin, not the blister. It works like that with the mousepad, only for shinbang.
 
yea ive done this before anbd it works well but i think if u jsut take the pain and put ur boots tighter..it just goes away and u dont get it ne more..
 
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