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shin splints

  • 17-02-2008 4:33pm
    #1
    StormWarrior
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    anyone know any exercises that can help relieve shin splints?


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  • #2
    davyjose
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    just rest afaik


  • #3
    WHIP IT!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,887 ✭✭✭WHIP IT!


    I've been told it's a problem that starts in the calves... you can relieve it slightly by putting a golf ball or tennis ball under ur bare foot while seated and moving your foot around, putting a bit of pressure on the ball...

    So I'm told anyway!

    I get it every now and then ever so slightly and usually a visit to a good physio sorts in out...


  • #4
    thirtyfoot
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    Go to a sports physio is the best advice to find out exactly what it is. They will tell if you have shin splints and also whats the remedy for whatever you have.


  • #5
    Roper
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    Every 2 weeks there's a shin splints topic. Who told you you have shin splints? If it wasn't a sports injury specialist you probably don't have them. Do a search of this forum for all the topics about this oft misdiagnosed injury.


  • #6
    thirtyfoot
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    Roper wrote: »
    Every 2 weeks there's a shin splints topic. Who told you you have shin splints? If it wasn't a sports injury specialist you probably don't have them. Do a search of this forum for all the topics about this oft misdiagnosed injury.

    The best a while back when someone said they had 'chin splints' which meant their chin was really sore when they walked to work. The wiseass remedy from someone was to relax their jaw muscles when walking, classic.


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  • #7
    Cheeky_gal
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    StormWarrior wrote: »
    anyone know any exercises that can help relieve shin splints?


    OMG!!!

    Does this ring home!! :rolleyes:
    I posted up a similar thread a few months back but they ended up locking it cuz it got "too medical" pffft! [looks at G'em] haha

    Anyhoo I feel your pain, unfortunately theres no exercises to relieve it other than rest. So the dude above is right I'm afraid...just chillax! :D


  • #8
    rubadub
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    Roper wrote: »
    Every 2 weeks there's a shin splints topic. Who told you you have shin splints? If it wasn't a sports injury specialist you probably don't have them. Do a search of this forum for all the topics about this oft misdiagnosed injury.
    So what is the condition that most people think is shin splints?


  • #9
    Roper
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    Sore legs from use or over use. ie. from having poor footwear and running on concrete or treadmills, or just from having a bad stride. Or even just from using muscles people haven't used before or haven't used in a long time.


  • #10
    rubadub
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    Roper wrote: »
    Sore legs from use or over use. ie. from having poor footwear and running on concrete or treadmills, or just from having a bad stride. Or even just from using muscles people haven't used before or haven't used in a long time.
    I got pains in my shins when I walked quickly, I used to walk to work 20-23mins each day. It was a sharp pain and I had heard it called shin splints. Maybe it was just sore and not whatever the medical definition is, but it seems it has got to the stage where more people have this pain than proper shin splints. People still call it shin splints and so it has sort of come to be a description of that pain.

    Like you always here people saying they have the flu, when really it is just a bad cold. Then people get flu vaccintations and complain they are useless as they still got "the flu".


  • #11
    farva
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    I'm another sufferer, its the most irritating thing in the world! I've been to my GP about it and apparently there are 3 muscles in your shin and when they are too tight(I think) you get shin splints. I've heard of a couple of remidies such as stretching with a bicycle tube and wearing runners with better arch supports, none of this has worked for me though!


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