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Post by adcooper on Mar 10, 2010 7:36:03 GMT -5
Why do I get them so easily? I swear, all I have to do is walk briskly to the mailbox and I'm sore for a week. I am trying to get back into walking with my dog now that the weather is nice, but this is sooooo frustrating.
Suggestions?
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Post by Kim on Mar 10, 2010 8:52:09 GMT -5
If you find an answer, please let me know!  I've been using an elliptical for this very reason...my legs do not like impact, apparently! Do you have tennis shoes that fit well? I'm not sure if that would help at all or not, but it's worth a try! |
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Post by abowls on Mar 10, 2010 13:39:00 GMT -5
I'm not sure why people get shin splints. I used to get them in college during preseason for soccer but I've since done a ton of running and haven't had a problem. I get really tight through my Achilles tendon. Maybe it's the different mechanics of our gates that causes some people to get one problem and another person to get another?
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Post by abowls on Mar 10, 2010 13:41:42 GMT -5
Oops meant to say that when I got shin splints in college I iced them for 20 minutes and just stretched the bejeezus out of them. Do you know that stretch? If you sit and bend your knee at about 90 degrees putting your heel on the ground with your ankle flexed. Then have someone put pressure on your foot to try to pull it away from your body (as though they are trying to unflex your ankle) while you try to resist. It's a very satisfying stretch.
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Post by diane on Mar 10, 2010 17:48:08 GMT -5
I had them also when first starting to walk around the race track.. so i did what every a good groom would do to their horse.... put bowie mud mixed with vinegar and dmso.. and slapped it on my shins..... then put brown paper on it..... I did NOT go outside with this on my legs..... lmao
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Post by adcooper on Mar 14, 2010 19:48:08 GMT -5
diane! That's a pretty picture...but did it work??
I'm thinking I have a serious conformational flaw and need special shoes. I hate tennis shoes (which is what people my age call ALL athletic shoes), but I bet I need a cushier sole than my clogs or Ariats or even my....don't laugh.....Hush Puppies! (Okay, they are not really Hush Puppies, but reminiscent.)
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Post by diane on Mar 14, 2010 23:52:00 GMT -5
it helped me...... I also had a heel spur right foot.... I could barely walk to do obedience.... after the foot dr wanted to operate.. a friend said to ice for 20 minutes and stand on a stair or a big book and drop my heels to the ground and stretch.... I still stretch both heels on the door frame at work.... also I used some linament on my shins as they got better. I am a great one for using some horse meds on myself because 90% of those meds were people meds first,.., I hope your shins and heels get better
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Post by Lisa on Mar 15, 2010 19:31:03 GMT -5
I know after getting a really good pair of shoes my feet ankles, and knees don't hurt as much. Course today I had to walk a half mile in heels, and about died!
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Post by coyote on Mar 16, 2010 14:46:28 GMT -5
I've said this so many times, I hesitate to say it again, but here goes. When I first started jogging years ago, I got very painful shin splints. I had a used running book that gave one exercise for shin splints. I did it and have never been bothered by them again. When my son first started pole vaulting, he got shin splints and I told him of hte exercise. I asked him yesterday if that exercise had cured his shin splints and he said that it had.
So, here goes. Seated, hold your foot off the floor. Raise your toe by bending your ankle. Do this many times - I do it a hundred or more on each leg. It could take more than that to feel the muscle that runs down the front of your shin get tired.
It's just something I have continued to do through the years. it cured my shin splints and during these many years they have never recurred. I dont' think my son kept up with his and he did get shin splints again and quickly started the exercise again.
I'd say if you cant get to 50 without starting to feel that muscle, it is very weak.
I dont' believe shin splints are about stretching, but about musles.
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Post by abowls on Mar 16, 2010 14:55:53 GMT -5
I don't think shin splints are caused by lack of stretching but stretching those muscles when they hurt FEELS GOOD and helps to lessen how much they hurt.
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Post by coyote on Mar 16, 2010 16:48:22 GMT -5
Oh, abowls, I wasn't responding to anytnig you said - in fact, it's been a long, long time since I read this thread and didn't know what anyone said.
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Post by adcooper on Mar 17, 2010 13:04:48 GMT -5
Well, I think walking on pavement seems to make it worse. Bruce and I just stomped around the trails in Hocking Hills yesterday and this morning, and I feel pretty good. Almost all of our walking was on trails. There was a little up and down, too.
I do think the case for stretching makes sense, at least since I rarely do ANYthing to prepare for physical activity. I just jump in, and asking cold muscles to work might be unfair, especially as these are the original issue antique muscles!
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Post by diane on Mar 18, 2010 21:15:38 GMT -5
coyote, I am gona try those exercises.. thanks
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Post by coyote on Mar 19, 2010 20:28:56 GMT -5
Great Diane. It works. It's easy to do this exercise without exercising the muscle so just take care to do the exercise so that one muscle that runs right beside the shin is the one being exercised. It's pretty straight forward, though.
Good luck.
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I've been using an elliptical for this very reason...my legs do not like impact, apparently! Do you have tennis shoes that fit well? I'm not sure if that would help at all or not, but it's worth a try!
