"Hi Stew, I am now suffering from shin splints every time I go running. It does not matter if I lay off running for a period of time or if I start out running shorter distances. What can I do to get ...

Paul G. Donohue, M.D. DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My 19-year-old son has been diagnosed with compartmental syndrome and has surgery scheduled soon to relieve the pressure. I am told that the chances for ...

Most of the athletes we know have experienced shin splints at some time or another. Shin splints, or medial tibial stress syndrome, is a common injury that affects all types of athletes and involves ...

Shin splints often plague runners who don’t build their mileage up gradually, or those who make an abrupt change to their workout regimen, like switching from running on grass to concrete, for example ...

YOU DON’T GET shin splints if you’re in good shape, Jack Lawrence kept telling himself. And several years ago, the Toronto businessman and life-long athlete, then 49 years old, was definitely in shape ...

"Shin splints" is a commonly used term that most soccer players apply to any pain between the knee and the ankle. Making this assumption is problematic as other causes of leg pain are often not ...

Corey asks: After a year-long running break, I’m back at it but experiencing crippling shin splints. I’ve tried changing shoes, exercises, slowing down, wrapping my shin, but nothing helps. Recently, ...

Spring marks the beginning of the running season for many fitness enthusiasts who have been cooped up for the long, hard winter. This time of year, complaints from shin splints soar. Shin splints are ...

You don`t get shin splints if you`re in good shape, Jack Lawrence kept telling himself. And several years ago, the Toronto businessman and lifelong athlete, then 49, was definitely in shape: Regular ...

Claude T. Moorman III, director of sports medicine at Duke University Medical Center, explains. The simple answer to this question is that "shin splints" is a layman¿s wastebasket term to describe ...