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Basketball and shin splints
18/m
This summer I got shin splints and have been battling them ever since. It has been a couple of months, got them in about July I would say.
I have only had them once before in my life when I was younger in track. Then they went away and never came back.
I currently play basketball, the season starts soon. I have been told to ice my shins, which i've been doing and resting my legs, as much as I can. My shin splints hurt TERRIBLY. Even to walk if I jog for 10 seconds my shins feel like someone is knifing my shins to pieces lol.
What can I do to help this? I need to be ready for basketball. I have new shoes, good shoes for basketball.
Any help is appreciated, I miss my sport and want to get back on the court asap.
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None of us are doctors and even if we were this is the type of question that requires more than just suggestions. What you need to do is see a sports medicine orthopedist doctor.
I know how much shin splints can hurt. Home remedies are just remedies for the effects of the problem. All icing does is help with the pain it does not affect or help the underlying cause.
An orthopedist is trained in problems of the bones and joints. Using X-rays and MRIs the doctor can see the underlying cause and make suggestion or form a treatment plan to correct the problem.
If you have insurance coverage under your parents health insurance. These visits, the x-rays and the MRIs if used would be covered to whatever extent your insurance pays for these things.
There are only two possible results here. You can see a doctor and most likely find out how to correct the problem. Or you can continue to treat the symptoms and suffer with this problem for the rest of your life. I hate to put it just that way but in this instance that is the reality. Shin splints are not only painful they can become debilitating later in life if left untreated.
My advice see a doctor now while you're young and find out how to correct the problem.
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