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Episode 41 | Dr. Andy Franklyn-Miller - All Things Shin Splints

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The Myth of Rolling Out Your Calves

A lot of track coaches tell athletes, oh, you're having a lot of shin playing in that let's have you roll out your calves because you might have some not since after cats. Is that true or false? Sadly nonsense. I argue that if you adding in a load of bounding for these guys and a load of jumps are likely not to have the strength capacity there in order to cope with that load. You need to get a good measure on that and make the jumping the power. So it's just likely that they haven't quite got enough power.

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