We all need to exercise on a frequent basis, especially as we get older. If you don't, your muscles will waste as part of the typical ageing process, your metabolism will require fewer calories to function, and even if you eat no more than you ever did, you will start putting on the pounds.
This extra weight your gaining is slow but relentless. If you'd suddenly piled on 20 pounds you'd notice it straight away but one or two pounds a year is easily overlooked. That weight you gained while on holiday never seems to go away like it used to and your clothes appear to be getting smaller!
You decide enough is enough and start an workout program. As part of your program you start running or jogging. At first you don't have a problem but after a couple of months the front of your shins become uncomfortable. Chances are you have Shin Splints.
I used to have a pony when I was younger so I knew about Shin Splints. If you ride a pony on very hard ground the chances are he'll develop splints. Splints can leave a pony lame for months and I'm afraid Shin Splints in humans have the same result.
I love to jog and use it as my fundamental method of keeping fit. Imagine my horror when after a short distance I started to develop a dull ache down the front of my legs. At the beginning I put it down to my age and just kept running hoping it would go away after I'd warmed up a bit.
Being an optimist I hoped the problem would go away all on it's own. How wrong I was, far from going away the pain in my lower legs got much worse. The more I ran the worse it got until in the end I couldn't even finish my training and you could often see me hobbling home muttering under my breath.
Shin Splints has nothing to do with splints. It is simply the name used when the long, thin muscle on the front of your lower leg is overused and gets inflamed " sort of Repetitive Strain Injury in the leg " and, as I learned when I went to train as a Sports Therapist can be treated. - 16083
This extra weight your gaining is slow but relentless. If you'd suddenly piled on 20 pounds you'd notice it straight away but one or two pounds a year is easily overlooked. That weight you gained while on holiday never seems to go away like it used to and your clothes appear to be getting smaller!
You decide enough is enough and start an workout program. As part of your program you start running or jogging. At first you don't have a problem but after a couple of months the front of your shins become uncomfortable. Chances are you have Shin Splints.
I used to have a pony when I was younger so I knew about Shin Splints. If you ride a pony on very hard ground the chances are he'll develop splints. Splints can leave a pony lame for months and I'm afraid Shin Splints in humans have the same result.
I love to jog and use it as my fundamental method of keeping fit. Imagine my horror when after a short distance I started to develop a dull ache down the front of my legs. At the beginning I put it down to my age and just kept running hoping it would go away after I'd warmed up a bit.
Being an optimist I hoped the problem would go away all on it's own. How wrong I was, far from going away the pain in my lower legs got much worse. The more I ran the worse it got until in the end I couldn't even finish my training and you could often see me hobbling home muttering under my breath.
Shin Splints has nothing to do with splints. It is simply the name used when the long, thin muscle on the front of your lower leg is overused and gets inflamed " sort of Repetitive Strain Injury in the leg " and, as I learned when I went to train as a Sports Therapist can be treated. - 16083
About the Author:
Just by following some simple precautions, I could have saved myself and my poor shins a lot of pain, frustration and discomfort. If Id only known then what I know now, Id never have got shin splints in the first place! Carol J Pearson is a Sports Massage Therapist specialising in Shin Splint Treatments. To learn more about how to Treat Shin Splints please feel free to visit my Web site.
