TwitQ: ‘Shin Splints’ – what is it? how can you help it?

Each week we answer Sports Medicine and Strength & Conditioning questions that are tweeted and/or e-mailed to us.

This week, the excellent running store Advance Performance (@Advance_P) asked us a question about ‘Shin Splints’ – because it is a common problem amongst runners…

Of the endless list of runners and sports people that we’ve helped over the past 5 years, ‘shin splints’ has to be very high in the “list of things that people come to see us about’.

In this video we talk about what shin splints is, and isn’t – we talk about how important a correct diagnosis is, the things that we will consider/help you with if you present with shin splints, and show you some useful things that you can do at home to help; if it turns out (as it does in most cases) that you actually have something called “MTTP”…