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- From: magdi@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Magdi N Azer)
- Subject: Causes for Shin Splints? A Theory
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:01:55 GMT
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- I posted earlier this week about shin splints, and how mine seem to
- occur at the indoor 200m track here at the U of I, but nowhere else. I have
- formulated a hypothesis about this, and I would appreciate any input as to
- correctness/incorrectness of my suppositions.
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- 1) As I understand it, shin splints results because the calf muscle is
- stronger than the muscles on the front of the leg; therefore exercises to
- strengthen the muscles on the shin will help to prevent people who are
- prone to shin splints.
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- 2) On misc.fitness today, someone posted that one such exercise is to
- tap your foot 100 times with your foot pointing three different postions a)
- inward b) straight out, and (c) outward. He claimed it worked wonders on his
- wife's shin splints. I tried this, and really felt a burn in my shins.
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- 3) Based on my experience with the exercise suggested above, and the
- fact that I have only felt this pain ice skating and after a hard day skiin, I
- thought that this exercise strenghthens the muscle on the shin (in my case,
- fatigued the muscle on the shin) because it isolates the muscle and gives it a
- good workout.
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- 4) From the logic of the above three observations, I concluded that
- the reason I get shin splints on the indoor track at the U of I Armory is
- because I am repetitively doing a motion/exercise that isolates the
- weakness in my shin (Running on a flat surface). The reason I only get shin
- splints or soreness on the Armory track is that other places I run (Either
- outside or on a suspended, banked track) is becuase in the case of being
- outside and on the banked track, I am not constantly isolating my shin.
- Instead, the motion of my foot as I travel across different terrains helps not
- to isolate my shin. Also the suspended track has superior cushioning.
-
- Is my logic correct or am I just blowing steam. Any input is
- aprreciated.
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- | o Magdi N. Azer
- |--- \ Center for Laser-Aided Materials Processing (CLAMP)
- |\|/ O/ Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
- | \/| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- | \ \ Urbana, IL 61801
- | Ph: (217) 333-5989
- | email: magdi@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
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