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your body filing a formal complaint about the surface you keep slamming it against
means Pain along the front edge of the shinbone, typically from running or jumping on hard surfaces, caused by inflamed muscles, tendons, and the tissue covering the bone.
from A plain compound of "shin" and "splints." "Shin" comes from Old English "scinu," the front of the lower leg, related to words for a thin strip or shank. "Splints" here borrows from an older medical and veterinary sense — a "splint" was a bony growth or hard swelling, a usage long applied to horses' legs before it settled onto human shins in the early 20th century.
- real name
- medial tibial stress syndrome, when fancy
- the cause
- too much, too soon, too hard
- runner toll
- strikes up to 35% of runners
- ignore it
- shinsplints become stress fractures
- the fix
- rest, ice, and swallowing your ego