Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome
Commonly known as Shin Splints
This condition has many different forms, primarily due to increased mileage and stress over too short of a period. Sometimes shin splints are just pain on the front portion of your lower leg, known as your tibialis anterior. Other times there can be a periosteal reaction resulting in minor stress fractures, which is why proper therapy is essential.
Like most running conditions, this occurs because the calf musculature becomes overly tight and causes strain.
Goals with treatment:
- Reducing tightness of muscles in the calf while working to help muscle balance.
- Co-activation to distribute the forces when running.
- We will also form a plan to avoid “too much, too soon, too long” when training.
Shin Splints: Here’s what you need to know.
Tri-Planar Calf Stretch for calf tightness, shin splints, and plantar fasciitis.
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“Dr. Nate is great! He uses both chiropractic practices and more physical therapy to help with pains. He has helped me with pain in my neck and knee and with a few short visits I was able to be pain free. He is understanding and works with you in visits and gives you exercises to help when you are out not with him and having pain. He has a lot of knowledge on treating his patients from multiple perspectives. Dry needling, PT and chiropractic techniques were all used to help me. I would recommend him to anyone because of his unique techniques of not just chiropractic but also exercises. He helped me not only heal what was hurting, but strengthen other muscles to prevent further injury.”
-Alison McHenry, Rochester, MN
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-David Braun, Rochester, MN