the.com/shin splints
Your bones filing a formal complaint about the running plan you made at 2am.
means A painful inflammation of the muscles and tissue along the shinbone, usually from running or sudden increases in exercise intensity.
from Straightforward compound of 'shin' (the Old English 'scinu,' the front of the lower leg) and 'splints,' borrowed from the older veterinary and medical sense of a hard, bony swelling — originally used for a similar ailment in horses' legs before it was applied to human runners sometime in the 20th century.
- actual cause
- tiny tears where muscle pulls on shin bone
- not a splint
- no cast fixes it, only rest does
- top culprit
- doing too much too soon, classic
- fix
- rest, ice, better shoes, slower ramp-up