If you have shin splints, you may experience a variety of symptoms. You may feel pain or notice swelling along the inner part of the lower leg, shin bone, or anywhere between the knee and ankle. Shin ...

If you’ve started running for the first time, started again after a break, or your workout is more intense, you might have felt it. A dull, nagging ache down your shins after you exercise. Should you ...

Shin splints aren’t hard to get. Faulty posture, poor shoes, fallen arches, insufficient warmups, poor running mechanics, poor walking mechanics, and overtraining can lead to the telltale shin pain.

"What should I do for shin splints?" is among the most common questions runners, especially relatively new ones, ask. The most accurate answer might well be, "Your guess is as good as anyone's," ...

Also known as medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS), shin splints is the catch-all term for lower leg pain that occurs below your knee, either on the front outer part of your leg (anterior shin splints ...

Shin splints are small tears in the area where the lower leg muscle attaches to the tibia, aka the shinbone. The tears result from overuse, and since the pavement taxes your muscles more than a ...

One week into training for an epic mountain trail run, I felt a tell-tale pain in my lower legs. Sure enough it was the dreaded shin splints. I was so amped to get ready for the 17-mile feat and so ...

The tibialis posterior tendon is an extremely important structure in the support of the foot and ankle. Its function is to support the arch as well as to provide stability of the ankle in the inward ...

This week we are going to discuss an athletic injury that occurs in children frequently and is often times preventable—shin splints. Shin splints or periostitis is a condition of the lower leg which ...

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