Hello all
I have had shin splints for the past 3 months. I went to the docs and he said rest(no supprise). I have rested twice and am taking loads of ibuprofin? After about 2 weeks rest I still have a sore patch just about the middle inside of my shin. I've looked at my running style and alterd it, used ice and ice heat treatment. and now I m lost for what next. After one longer run approx 5 miles my whole lower leg felt exceptionally tight and my shin were killing, could the problem be over tight calfs.
Thanks for you help
lee
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Also read this http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/0161.htm
but all the exercises take forever.
So far I have almost cured a lifelong shin splint problem which previously resulted in several physios telling me never to run again by
1. Getting full (hyper) extension of the knee joints - this got rid of 80% of them
2. Getting orthotics which raised the foot of the leg which had the remaining 20% of serious shin pain / stress fracture pain
The combination of 1 + 2 has also sorted out desperately deep calf muscle pain in the apparently shorter leg and I no longer have Achilles tendonitis - all that remains is for someone - somewhere to get my quads right and I'll be away. Have recently done loads of 30 mile weeks without even a whimper from my shins but am desperately sore with the quads which I know is an imbalance problem caused by a lousy skeleton strucutre and a twisted pelvis.
E mail me if you want chapter & verse about the knee extension thingy
Good Luck
Jenks
I'll have ago at the exercises above and see if they help. I've just been for a walk-jog(more walk) with my G/f and have a mild ache still in middle of my shin.
I've checked my shoes for the ware patterns and I tend to ware the outside edge heals(heavyly) of them and the middle fore foot area, is this normal. I've ajusted the mechanics of my running so I land with a flat foot to avoid slaping down the front.
I heck the www pahe and its got some good info thanks.
Boy i sympathise with you, it really is frustrating when you are injured particularly if you are stuck in a loop like you are.
I suffer the same problem hence the name, is the pain on the inner side of the calf and near to the bone? If so then what you could have is an adhesion of the muscle to the bone. What happens when you run is you get microscopic damage of the muscle. This can take the form of a bleed, the muscle then goes on to heal and becomes stronger.
What can happen, is that when the muscle heals it can attach itself to the bone, by doing this it vitually loses its function. Rather than expanding and contracting as you run its unable to do so because it is fixed to the bone. You then have a loss of flexibility in your leg as well as pain when you walk/run.
The way out of this is to get a sports massage (won't do any harm anyway) where with cross friction they can get all the fibres re-aligned. May hurt like hell 1st time, but will be worth it.
Good luck.
obviously your mechanics will probably be completely different to mine but it is important that you double check your correct shoe type.
Tim I,ve tryed resting and prevention with little luck so far, but that with my body and problems. I also at first contiuned to run with them and the did not get any worse, I streched and used ice after the runs. But they never seem to go away which leads to the inability to increase training, I just seem to be stuck at this point
sports massage can do wonders. reading what everyone has written and what I've read in the past, it could be a combination of things....
Having been told by countless physios since I ws 17 (2* years ago) never to run again becos I was on the verge of stress fractures - and having never been able to run more than 15 miles a week without being crippled by shin splints (I once had 27 feet of taping wrapped round my shins trying to reduce the pain - it did - a bit) I'm now doing 30 mile weeks frequently - on the roads - without really a hint of a shin splint except when I lose full mobility in the knee joint.
So don't give up...try every quack remedy you can!
PS resting just returns the injury to the state it was when you took up the activity which caused the injury in the first place so if it's a biomechanical fault resting won't achive a permanent solution
PPS Voltarol - applied for 3 days - can deaden the legs brilliantly for a race (I didn't really say that, V-Rap!)
Once again thanks to all