If you’re a novice runner or new to exercise all together, heed the warnings you’ve heard about taking it slow. Stress fractures, muscle soreness and discouragement are among the more common drawbacks when you become overzealous about your new weight loss program.
Some of you, though, may start to experience a pain in the inner part of the lower leg. The pain, ranging from mild discomfort to sharp pain with every step, is referred to as shin splints. A lesser known ailment, shin splints is very persistent. Sufferers can expect the pain to last three to ten days after initial onset. Shin splints is actually a condition called Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome (MTSS).
As it turns out, shin splints can be a bit more gruesome than just the simple inflammation of the muscle tissue surrounding the bones in the lower leg.
The two bones in the lower leg are the tibia and the fibula. The tibia is the bone located in the inner part of the leg – the area that shin splints is most commonly felt. All around these two bones are situated a large number of muscles and tendons. When shin splints occur, the muscles that attach to the tibia actually begin to tear from the bone.
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