Recently, i have been having an issue with shin splints! O man the pain! They literally stop you from playing as soon as they come on! Besides stretching, is there another way to combat these things? This doesn't happen to me all the time, but when it does i get concerned................ Any help would be appreciated.
RICE. take a break. i didn't and on one leg it became a black line fracture. i've now got a rod in my leg through the tibia (knee to ankle) as a result. it caused me to be out of the game for 2 years.
Yeah, lots of rest is really the only solution. I rested for 3 weeks (barely walked) and it still wasn't enough and they came back. You just have to be really patient with them. Do some Googling and you'll find some more advice that helped me. Things like stretches and exercises to strengthen your calf muscles. There is a relatively new and controversial physio treatment for it where the physio presses hard on the affected area to break down the scar tissue. It's extremely painful and not many physios will do it but someone I know had it done and it pretty much worked.
The key is calf muscle strength. Work on that for several weeks and you should be good to go. Also, get compression sleeves for your calves. They typically run 20 bucks per leg. They will help you immediately. I got them on the advice of a trainer, and it was like night and day. So between the sleeves and some calf strengthening, I would bet that you could avoid shin splints forever by spending 40 bucks and working out for a month.
I had them when I played College Soccer and in the early track season. It's true that rest helps. However when I felt them coming on I would wrap ankle weights around the top of my feet, keep my legs straight and flex my toes back towards my knees. This seemed to help me immensely.
potassium also is a great help so eat bananas but not too much of the straight up vitamin because it can cause heart problems. The muscular strength needed to fight them isn't really in the calves but the muscle on the front of the leg
Tape the front of the legs in a cris-cross diagonal pattern before events and you might have no pain.
A boy i knew used to roll a broom handle over his shins it killed him but strengthened the bone and muscles!! NUTTER! You just need to rest and make sure that you stretch and warm up properly. appleCORR
i dono if its the same thing but when im playing i cant run properly, i feel really heavy footed and my ankles start hurting really quickly.. and sometimes its higherup but not usally. any idea what this is?
I had shin splints last summer and I know that they're a big fat pain. I did streches and excercises. Doctor told me rest, and if I do play soccer to use an iceback before and after a game or practice, that helped me a bunch. Also told me to take anti-inflammatories too so I did that. No shin splints now, but they did take a while to get rid of completely.
Not sure why you'd even think about icing your shins BEFORE training... you have muscles down there and all muscles need to be warmed up to prevent injuries. Anyways, I had shinsplints that took me out for nearly half a season. The only way I could play at all was using anti-inflammatories, and even then I could still feel a ton of pain!! The best option for me would've been to rest buuut I was stubborn, and it was for university so I stuck to it. So in saying that, just rest. If you're willing to go through the pain, play. I know of another girl who played university basketball and ended up with shinsplints, only she ended up in air casts for walking because of small fractures in her lower legs. So take the risk or rest those legs, your choice.
Well, i decided to take a 2 week vacation from any soccer activity, or running. As of now, i think im pretty much back to normal. I will do a little bit of running and scrimmaging at practice on Wed and see how i feel. I also called our family doctor, and he told me to take it easy, and the day that i have a match start stretchting early in the day so that everything is ready to go. He stated that the best stretch is where you reach for your toes while sitting on your behind. So, il see how it goes, and il keep u all posted! Thanks everyone for your generous responses!
After you start playing/training again, I would recommend icing your shins after games or practice. To make a form fitting ice pack, take a quart zip lock bag and some shin guards. Put water in the ziplock bag and put them on top of the outside of the shin guards. The result will be an ice pack that has the same curvature and shap as your shins. Put them in your socks after get home for 15-20 minutes. It's amazing how much it helps.
I did this and it worked for me. I'm not very good at "resting". I have to do something. Alos, try this website for soem excercises http://www.sportsinjurybulletin.com/archive/0161-shin-splints-treatment.htm