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Shin Splints
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devildog2307
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JDawg2332 said:
You might want to just take 3 or 4 consecutive days off. During that time, if it were me, I would pump motrin. Continue icing and stretching. I know what you're thinking, you are afraid of getting out of shape. If you do a half hearted attempt to rest by continuing to run, just not as hard, you will still lose some of your fitness but the difference will be that you will still be injured. Just work on your pullups and crunches in the mean time. If you rest, just do it right, and take a few days. Also, I drink more than a gallon of water a day. Somehow I think that helps. I find that it feels like WD-40 in your joints if you're the tin man. After resting don't come back immediately and try to start wrecking again. That's a good way to get another injury. Ease back into it. LBS is they key here: Long Boring Slow. Be a man, and rest...laf.
I am sure people will disagree with this advice, but it worked for me and I was never on light duty (which you do not want to be on, for many reasons). I started getting shin splints about a month before OCS. I quit running and used the eliptical machine and exercise bike everyday. One week into OCS the shin splints were back and they were painful. Every morning i would go see doc and get motrin. I would take it twenty to thirty minutes prior to PT. It works awesome. I was always able to keep up on all runs and in relatively little pain. Around noon chow, when the motrin wore off, is when the pain would begin. I just sucked it up when we weren't PTing and made sure i took it before PT. Around the fifth or sixth week the pain started to go away and by week eight i was no longer on the motrin. The corpsman and docs made me nervous about shin splints causing stress fractures which will cause your leg to snap in half when jumping off an obstacle. I was concerned, but not enough to get on light duty. You will be fine, just suck up the pain and take the motrin. Our plt sgt let us by our own motrin on liberty. It got me through ocs. I am finishing up TBS and have not have shin pains since OCS.
devildog2307
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uaferg said:
Hell yeah, that's where it's at right there. I use the eliptical for cross training all the time.
you have to get it from the corpsman. My platoon's doc would only give me one or two at a time, but i would go see him everytime he was in the squadbay. After about the fourth week our plt sgt said we could buy our own, so i bought a bottle of about 500 200mg ibuprofen and kept it in my wallocker. I would take 4 pills to equal one of the horse pills. I was a popular man when people found out how much i had.
If you get shin splints real bad, or regularly then you want to see a sports medicine doctor or an orthopedic specialist. The key is that your feet may not "work" normal. Ie you might pronate, etc. Which means that it puts undue stress on your shins and muscles, etc. If that is the case, then you can get special orthodics made to fit your feet and how they operate to take the stress off.
J Dawg,
The reason which you get shin splints is because of a week tibialis anterior muscle (the muscle on the front of your leg on the outside of your shin). I know this from experience as well as reading and research. A good exercise to combat your shin splints is to place a weight on the tow of your foot and lift it up. This will flex the front part of your leg and in turn strengthen your tibialis anterior. Shin splints does not mean your shins are splinting, it is just your muscle aching.
Jesse
The reason which you get shin splints is because of a week tibialis anterior muscle (the muscle on the front of your leg on the outside of your shin). I know this from experience as well as reading and research. A good exercise to combat your shin splints is to place a weight on the tow of your foot and lift it up. This will flex the front part of your leg and in turn strengthen your tibialis anterior. Shin splints does not mean your shins are splinting, it is just your muscle aching.
Jesse
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