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- From: page@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Thomas Page)
- Subject: Re: Is running with shin splints okay?
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 19:49:04 GMT
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- If you have shin splints, and you stop running for six weeks, they will get
- better. However, you will have treated the symptom, and not the cause. Ie.,
- if you start running again after six weeks, and do exactly what you did before,
- you will get shin splints again. So, whether or not you stop running is a
- matter of how you want to treat the symptoms; if it hurts too muchs, stop. If
- you can't get them to start healing while continuing to run, stop.
-
- But far more important is figuring out what caused them, and thereby figuring
- out what you are going to do differently in the future. I suggest some
- combination of:
- replace the worn out shoes, get a more appropriate kind of shoe, get a
- corrective orthotic device, run on a softer surface, run less total miliage,
- do less speed work, strengthen your shins, stretch your calf muscles and
- achilles tendon, etc. If you find out which of these does the trick, you
- may be able to continue to run (by icing your shins before and after running)
- while you heal. If you don't find out your magic cure, you wont be able to
- run anyway.
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