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Originally posted by Spaman_29
Shin splints are merely stress fractures.
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I'm not sure this is true. My sister is not yet a doctor, but she is in medical school, and in her sports medicine rotation, she learned that shin splints are actually inflammation of the muscles and tentonds that connect the bones in the lower leg. The reasons they inflame are complicated, but the exercises I described above are designed to strengthen those muscles so they won't keep re-swelling.
I do use orthotics, too, though, and they help a lot with various foot pains I would get from time to time.