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Shin splints are caused by the overdeveloped muscles of the calf pulling on the anterior weaker muscle that wraps the shin. The best way to relieve them is rest. Most of the time, shin splints are a jumper's injury and a sprinter's injury, so if these are the type of things you are doing, you need to keep shin splints from happening. To do this, you must exercise the anterior muscle of your lower leg. The best exercise for this is simple and can be done anywhere. Set a couple of books on the ground next to a wall or next to something you could use to balance yourself. With one foot step up onto the books and allow the other leg to dangle off the edge. Simply, bend your knee slightly so your foot drops below the edge of the books. You will feel the stretch and strain across your shin immediately. Hold it for about 3 seconds and then stand back up. You should do about 3 sets of 15 reps every day, until your shin splints go away. You really should routinely do this exercise, if you are in a sport that requires a lot of jumping or sprinting and stopping. You can prevent them from ever happening to you.
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Something which may help on this is a magnesium supplement (in an acidic context), or possibly a calcium/magnesium supplement. Magnesium often helps the muscles to relax. It is highly benefitial on a whole host of things with the body. Calcium "tenses" muscles in one manner, while magnesium "relaxes" muscles in another manner. Click on my name or do a search to find out more on magnesium.
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I used to be a physical trainer for a high school basketball team. press on the shin until you get to where it just starts to hurt with pressure. (from the bottom of the leg up) and apply athletic tape all the way around the bottom of the leg just below the point where it hurts (one solid band of tape). 2 or 3 times around will work. Don't cut off blood flow but you want a little pressure. this releives the pain for a while. if you want to play a sport while suffering from shin splints and this isn't enough to completely eliminate the pain you can put icy hot on the entire shin, cover that with plastic wrap (all this only on the shin not the entire calf) and wrap with an ace bandage. then follow the above method with the athletic tape and a peice on top of the bandage to hold that in place. To get rid of them you must to excersises to strengthen your calfs slowly. such as stand flat on the ground with both feet side by side and lift and lower you body on your toes alone. be careful! shin splints can develope into stress fractures!
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you get rid of them slowly and methodically, there is no one cure as most people have them for different reasons. What works for one person will not work for someone else. But rest is good, most often its a overloading (too much running to soon, you need to build slowly) or poor biomechanics. http://www.shins-splints.co.uk/
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