Subject: RE: shin splints Ice it every night, regardless if it hurts or not. They take a full 3 weeks past the point you don't feel them to heal. So keep icing and taking it easy. Take a Dixie cup, fill it with water and freeze. Peel the bottom off and use it to massage your shins where that bruising feeling is. During your time off, replace running with eliptical training and pool running. I'm in the middle of fighting mine and I picked up an extra day of yoga to help stretch that muscle out. So far it's working out alright. If you keep up with the eliptical and pool running, you may actually end up faster coming out of recovery then you were when you had to stop. |