Shin Splints

So there's a couple different treatments that work for shin splints. I did wrapping at night just from your ankle upwards. That was really helpful and it was just while I slept so it kept the swelling down, it kept the pain down, it started letting my body heal while I was sleeping. I also massaged the muscles because tight muscles is kind of what causes like some difficulty. It just adds more stress to the bone. And then avoiding super strenuous activity. Anything that caused an impact, I avoided that so my bones could heal. I think I used ice a couple times too when it would get really like inflamed and hot. That was helpful to like reduce the pain and to reduce any swelling and stuff.

I was in high school and did cross country and I would get shin splints occasionally and our coach would have us do penguin walks which look like this and they strengthen your skin muscles, I mean not skin, shin muscles to prevent shin splints.

It wasn't until I started playing rugby that I was able to actually kind of get better with my shin splints. I had a coach and he had been through the same thing and he wasn't a certified personal trainer or like physical therapist or anything like that but he just played a lot of sports in his life and in his career and so he found the best way to massage it. It was just a massage up and down right where it hurts. After massaging it for a while and just rubbing it, it usually would feel better for a while.

I used to get shin splints from playing basketball and football as well. The advice I was given is to work on strengthening your foot and ankle muscles as much as possible. So what I was taught to do is to do ankle ABCs, is just to sit down with your feet hanging, not touching the ground, and just write the ABCs with your feet, and this will strengthen your ankles. And then just try to do toe stretches as well, so try to move your toes as much as possible and try to get full range of motion in your toes while you do that, and that should strengthen your foot and ankle muscles so that your shins aren't hurting as bad when you run, hopefully.

Something that really worked for me was taking days off and also using IcyHot.