I was injured when doing a lot of running last spring and have had problems ever since. Both of my legs have pain in the shin area. I was at a leg doctor last summer and he couldn't really figure out what to do so I was left leading a barely moving year of school. Now it is summer again and the pain is worse than ever. My new sports related injury doctor doesn't know exactly how to cure it either. I'm taking an inflammatory ibuprofen like pill twice a day. I heard that going to a podiatrist would be good so I have an appointment in the 16th for that. Hopefully someone has some more ideas because its really hindering my working out and job.

I was injured when doing a lot of running last spring and have had problems ever since. Both of my legs have pain in the shin area. I was at a leg doctor last summer and he couldn't really figure out what to do so I was left leading a barely moving year of school. Now it is summer again and the pain is worse than ever. My new sports related injury doctor doesn't know exactly how to cure it either. I'm taking an inflammatory ibuprofen like pill twice a day. I heard that going to a podiatrist would be good so I have an appointment in the 16th for that. Hopefully someone has some more ideas because its really hindering my working out and job.


Well how did you injure your leg initially? Break it? Tear your muscle? Details...

I have experienced pain where my calf meets bone, like on the inner part of the leg. The only thing you can do there is condition it. By condition I do not mean go balls out and work your leg out till it breaks. Quite the opposite, take time off of hitting that mucle for a few weeks until the pain subsides a bit. Then introduce small loads.

What do I mean? Well the way I got rid of my issue(s) is that I took time off from running, and then started running for 2 minutes, then 4, then 6, then 10 ... etc. With plenty of recovery time in between the loads, depending on the pain. So if you run for say 2 minutes on monday, you don't load that muscle again till friday, and even then just 2 minutes. The next week, try progressing do a MWF load of 2 minutes. Stay on that for like 2 more weeks, and if you aren't busting yourself up and the pain is gone or staying leveled, then up that to 3 or 4 minutes. But make sure you don't overload the muscle and make it hurt, otherwise you get to start over :)

The other thing to try is shin wraps. These will help keep things together at first, but eventually you should progress past them and not need the stupid things.

http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Tec-Athletics-Shin-Splints-Compression/dp/B000A0C4GI/ref=sr_1_1/102-1784830-6479319?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1186599153&sr=8-1

When I first started I injured my knees and shins( my calves were sooooo skinny! and I have a lot of upper body strengh/muscle, fat when I started lol). I slowly built that muscle and now I have massive calves and quads... or at least the biggest I've ever seen them lol... Anyway point is that those muscles have to be fairly strong to support your entire bodyweight!

So ... what do you do in the meantime for cardio? Exercise bike my good man, it's just as good as running... trust me I have an HR monitor and have calculated intensity. As long as you bust ace on the bike you get the same thing. Just constantly up the level you are at.

Anyway post any questions you have and tell us what the injury was... specifically...less u dont want to talk about it, we need to know more about exact pain location.

Running on hard concrete all the time can cause shin splints. I started to feel a lot of pain in the same area so I stopped running outside all together unless its on a real track or on grass as those surfaces are a lot softer. Also, it helps to have some decent shoes as well but i'm just to cheap to fork over $100+ just for some running shoes.

Physical therapy may be worth a shot.