Pain in the shin or shin splint commonly experienced by those who are often running, dancing, playing basketball, football, tennis or simply catching the bus.
Have you ever experienced pain in the area along the shins? It could be that you experience shin splints. Pain in the tibia or shin splints may be caused by inflammation due to an injury to the soft tissue under the front legs. Inflammation and the injury could occur if the shinbone got too much pressure or if your feet excessively when it hits the ground.
The tibia bone pain or shin splint can be felt during or after your strenuous activity like running. Or can also while doing sports that require fast pace movement and stopped abruptly, for example, basketball and tennis. Pain in the shins or shin pain sometimes occur constantly and become severe in sensitive areas.
Depending on the cause, the pain can be located along the both sides of the shin or the muscle. If touched, it will make the pain more painful. Muscle swelling can sometimes irritated nerves around the feet that make the legs feel like being stabbed by many needles and sometimes become numb.
Shin pain can often heal by itself. Of course, you can help yourself by doing simple steps such as the following:
- Take a rest
- Put ice on the shins or around the pain for 20-30 minutes every 3 or 4 hours. Do this for 2-3 days until the pain goes away. This action is is considered capable to relieve swelling and pain.
- Take anti-inflammatory painkillers such as ibuprofen, NSAID, or aspirin. Useful to help relieve the pain and swelling. However, these drugs are recommended only used occasionally or according to doctor instruction.
- Stretch the calf muscles and the front legs.
- Choose the right sports shoes. Seeking advice from a doctor or trained store staff to determine which sports shoe that best fits your foot shape is the best way you can do to prevent shin pain.
- Use neoprene sleeve to sustain and warm up your lower leg.
- Go to a physical therapist to identify and treat problems in the legs, helping to relieve the pain, and guiding or advising about exercise you can do without make your shin in pain.
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