s2/e16 Shin Splints with Dr. Marie Whitt, DPT (@dr.whitt.fit)
The Running Explained Podcast
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Shinsplugs: The Pathophysiology of Bone Injury
The more literature I read from 2018 through now through 2022, the more we don't know about shinsplugs. Shinsplants or medial to the ill stress syndrome is a spectrum of injuries that include muscle imbalance. And when there's a muscle imbalance, it results an abnormal tibial loading,. A tibia bone is doing too much work. Is not supposed to do that much work, but somebody else up the chain isn't doing it. Okay, so does that kind of make sense when I say chain? I mean, yes, yeah, you can talk about the kinetic chain, but you think about your body. Correct.
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