Written by: Gary Buchenic – Personal Trainer and former shin splint sufferer.
If you’re looking to get rid of shin splints quickly and permanently, then this may be the most important piece of advice anyone every share’s with you, here it is…
Proper shin splints treatment is about more then icing your shins, stretching every once in a while and getting some good rest in between exercising or playing your favourite sport.
In truth, It’s almost impossible to get rid of shin splints permanently if you just use the “conventional” shin splints treatment techniques.
Why?
Because most conventional techniques like rest and icing are only PAIN RELIEF techniques.
… And pain is just a symptom of the condition you have, not the cause.
Put it this way… If your cars fuel light is flashing empty, do you:
A) fix the fuel light
OR
B) Fill up some fuel
Of course, you fill up some fuel!
The fuel light flashing is just a symptom of your car’s tank being almost empty, just as the pain is a symptom that there’s something WRONG inside your body.
Naturally, if you find what’s actually wrong and treat it directly, the symptom goes away!
So you may be wondering, “What’s wrong and how do I treat it?”… That’s a fantastic question!
After years of research, I can tell you that there’s several underlying causes of shin splints that are keeping you in pain. They are:
- Training too much, too fast or too soon.
- Weak or inflexible calves
- Weak or Inactive glutes
- Bad running form
- Poor or inappropriate shoes
If you’re suffering from shin splints, it’s not a question of whether you have one of these problems… It’s a question of which ones and how many.
To eliminate shin splints once and for all the course of action is simple
Step 1: Use effective pain relief techniques
Step 2: Identify what’s causing your shin splints
Step 3: Treat those underlying causes directly
Makes sense, doesn’t it?
All of this is EASY to do, if you want a proven guide that will guide you through this exact method step-by-step then go check out the eBook that I wrote… It’s called “Stop Shin Splints Forever” and you can learn more about it here: