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09-18-2006, 10:19 PM
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Gender:  |  Question about the front of my legs when i run or jog the front of my legs i guess you call it the schin area gets very tight and it get kinda hard to run or jog. my muscles get super tight and they kinda stiffen up or atleast i think its my muscles that are hurting. someone said somethin about schin splints but i dont know what that is. any help would be great, thanks yall |
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09-19-2006, 05:13 AM
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| some one correct me if I'm a little off. But I believe shin splints are tiny fractures in your shins, usually caused by bad running form, or very over wieght people going to hard to fast. The shoes you wear can also effect this, if your landing flat foot when you run it can f your shins up something nasty, not to mention your knees and back. how long can you run before you start to feel it? |
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09-19-2006, 07:16 AM
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| Yea shin splints I also hear are tiny little fractures. but its not caused by bad form. Its when you start running hard and you havent ran in a while or a long time your legs get stressed because they are not used to the moment of your body weight. They go away with time your body just needs to get used to it. If it starts to hurt worse just take a few days off and your legs should repair. |
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09-19-2006, 09:33 AM
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Gender: | I was gonna put stuff on this in the injuries thread but I never did. Everyone is half right. It CAN progress to stress fractures which would be on the severe end of the spectrum. Yes it is overuse or upping the intensity or duration of training to quickly. AND it can be helped along by bad shoes, by the shape of the arch or the running form, such as rolling the foot inwards too much. Running on hard surfaces like concrete (don't if you can help it). But what you said about the muscles feeling tight is a big part of it. The small muscles become completeley fatigued and more and more force is trasnfered to the fascia of the bone and then to the bone itself, causing inflammation and pain. This pain does not mean you have a fracture but if training continues and intensifies without recovery and allowing the muscles to strengthen the the forces on the bone can lead to fracture. Google Shin Splints and you'll find plenty. You'll basically need to bring it down a notch andj build it back up. Ice it when it hurts. Examine the way you run. Try to find a forgiving surface (we weren't meant to run of concrete or asphalt). Stretch. The problem with them is that while usually they go away if you increase your training gradually and get proper rest and recovery it is not always a matter of "rest and heal". It's a matter of inflammation so you can think about it like tendonitis. It doesn't always go away if you wait awhile since the inflammation tends to be self perpetuating. Just sitting around and doing nothing for awhile won't necessarily help if you go right back to the same intensity or duration and don't correct any problems. If you rest the inflammation might go away and you might heal but if you rest too long any gain in fitness could easily slip away putting you right back at square one. Last edited by Eric3237; 09-19-2006 at 12:14 PM. |
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09-19-2006, 03:28 PM
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Gender: | "Its when you start running hard and you havent ran in a while or a long time your legs get stressed because they are not used to the moment of your body weight."--Kuestone Yeah pretty much since the end of last school year i havent ran and now that im in school again my PE coach got us running kinda hard at times. so im not used to it anymore but i will build back up "The shoes you wear can also effect this, if your landing flat foot when you run it can f your shins up something nasty, not to mention your knees and back."--hrdgain81 And yeah to this one also, im not running in running shoes i've been running in some Quick Silver skating shoes and when my legs start stiffening and stuff i notice that i start running flat footed, but i cant help it because my legs wont move right, its like they aint got no strength in them to run right. im trying to think if i run flat foot in general but i dont think that i do. i'll try and pay attention to how im running on thursday when we run again. hmmm.... lets see.... thank you guys for your help its greatly appreciated, i was going to ask my PE coach but he's almost always throwing a fit over wut kids do in his class! LOL he's gonna give himself a heartattack with how worked up he gets himself! but yeah...LOL... any suggestions to run right instead of flat footed if i do find out that im running flat footed? thanks again guys! |
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