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When I’ve had shin splints I’ve just switched 100% to bike. You can train and let them heal
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When I had that I just stopped immediately and just did bi daily stretches.
Completely anecdotal, but doing the baby squats or primal squat or whatever helped me a LOT. -
Ballet plie (spelling?) squats
Edit: not strictly plié squats, but heels together, off the floor, bend your knees and squat.
I also had a load of dry needling done in the affected area, and it heeled up enough for me to.continue marathon training, and quite possibly run a PB
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Balls. Did a few longer runs in the week and Friday a long-ish one in the morning. Felt fine and went through the day but towards evening a pain in my front lower shin had developed. This has grown after a short slow jog on Saturday and small walking. I can actually hear the tendon creaking when I move my foot up and down so pretty sure it's shin splints.
Real bummer but what now? I'll have to do a bit of walking to get to the office and was thinking I'd go for a swim to see if that helps. I can see plenty of stretches and rehab exercises for once the initial pain subsides but not sure how much of that I can do now. Are there any gentle movements that will help?