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Good luck - hope the mri gives a conclusive result
I’m 3 weeks on from shin splints and seemingly back to normal. Did some gym work yesterday and couldn’t detect any difference between left and right so going to try a couple of miles tomorrow.
Shin splints were massively painful though and one of these injuries that affects day to day life. Another wake up call that I need to do more than just aerobic stuff and do lower body gym, yoga or Pilates a couple of times a week.
cookiemonster-
I suffered badly from shin splints years ago and went through progressively more built up running shoes and then custom orthotics trying to get rid of them. The net result was shin splints plus additional problems!
Then I thought about the nature of the problem, which in my case was the over-pronation which essentially is an incorrect motion that the shoes and orthotics are trying to prevent, but forcing a rigid biomechanic as a result. So I got a pair of neutral shoes and spent a couple of months on a treadmill in front of the mirror concentrating on trying to eliminate the over-pronation and gradually building up the time to allow everything to adapt and ensure that it became my natural motion.
It worked and I now run fine with neutral shoes over any distance/ surface so it's worth considering if you run into the same problems again.
welpeur
An excellent marker! You'll chip away at that over the year, no doubt.
@BringMeMyFix - Thanks!
...Just a few hours after my fracture clinic appointment on Tuesday I had a call from the hospital asking if I could come in for an MRI the next morning. Excellent service! So shouldn't have to wait too long for results. The cold has just about cleared up finally, so managed a couple of 30 mins indoor rowing sessions this week. Time to get some fitness back.