172. 5 Ways to End Shin Splint Pain FOREVER with Duane Scotti, DPT, PhD
So I want you to be optimistic in approaching and overcoming your shin splints for good because
yes, you will get over this. This is not something that you need to live with for the rest of your
running career, running journey, whatever you want to call it. You can actually run for 10,
20, 30, 40 years without having shin pain. Are you constantly worried about getting injured
or you don't know how to get faster as a runner and you want to continue to run for stress relief,
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Got shin splints? Here's how to beat them. Are you frustrated that every time you try to run faster
or run longer, you get this tightness or pain in your shin area? Would you like to learn the best
shin splint exercises to relieve anterior shin splints or medial tibial stress syndrome in runners?
Maybe you've tried to start running, but no matter what shoes you wear or how much you ice
your shins after your runs, the pain just keeps coming back. This can be super frustrating and
that is why I wanted to share with you today how you can beat shin splints for good.
In today's training, I am going to cover five ways to end shin splint pain forever.
I'm going to share with you my top six shin splint exercises for runners why your pain is not due
to the shoes that you're wearing, how to have a strong mindset to overcome shin splints.
I'm going to also share with you my best exercise to improve your foot stability
which would be super helpful for your shins, how changing your cadence can help your shin pain
and what recovery strategies will actually help your shin pain and it's not going to be ice,
spoiler alert. Nine out of 10 runners listening to this will get injured and one of the most common
injuries we see in newer runners is shin splints. Trying to get stronger as a runner when you don't
have direction can be frustrating. You may have been giving exercises by a random PT you saw
a couple times or that you honestly found on the internet and you really don't know exactly
what strategies to do to overcome your shin splints and you've been doing some kind of random
exercises without having purpose, rhyme or reason and if you don't have a specific strategy to get
over shin splints you stop running for a couple days just to find that the pain comes back when
you start running again. You get scared to run back to back days because your shins need a day off.
You guess instead of following specific targeted exercises you rely on icing your shins or taking
Advil after every run and worst case scenario is it progresses to a stress fracture and then
you're forced to actually stop running for six weeks and this leads to frustration and feeling
like running is just not for you. We at Spark Healthy Runner have a plan on how to build a strong
foundation as a runner so you can optimize your running for longevity and it's not a plan that
most adult runners are following. As a running physical therapist and a running coach I have
given thousands of runners a plan for getting stronger, being able to run longer without shin
pain and our plan will work for you too. All you need to do is stay tuned and listen to my
five ways to end shin splint pain forever. Next download my how to start running without shin splint
pain and PDF freebie in the show notes and I will actually walk you through the exact exercises
that you're going to learn about today and we can do them together. That link is in the show notes
and then you need to actually take action implement these strategies so you can start feeling stronger
and more confident in growing as a runner without having to worry about your shins hurting again.
I know how hard it is to grow as a runner. Heck it took me actually 12 years to come up with this
brand new framework that I just created or trying to grow as a runner. Framework that really allows
you to get over not only stubborn shins splints but also master six key parts in your running journey
to not only feel more confident but get stronger and run faster and you'll actually stay healthy and
enjoy the process of running again. You can get the latest Spark healthy runner ebook free
resource how to grow as a runner six step roadmap with a ton of supplemental resources
visuals and video content that will help provide context of some of the strategies you're going
to learn today in overcoming shin splints. Now these are like the try true tested strategies
that have kept all the runners that I work with on a one-on-one basis as they're running physical
therapist and coach to stay running during their recovery and finally learn how to never have to
have their pain or injury come back again. So go ahead get your download of the free ebook by going
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to submit your question and that is where we're compiling all the questions and we'll put that
together into an bonus episode for you. So now let's get into five ways to end shin splint
pain forever. Now for reference for today's episode there is a bonus download on how to become a
runner without shin splints. So in this bonus download I cover what our shin splints, why do runners
get shin splints, what are the symptoms of shin splints, is there treatment for shin splints,
what are the specific actionable strategies to treat shin splints. Today I want to talk about five of
them. I actually cover more in the download and then how do you prevent shin splints from happening
again. So we get into prevention. So all of that has been covered in the ebook. It is definitely
beyond the scope of today's training quite frankly to get into that because honestly it would be
way too long and you would never listen to me talk for like two hours. So I've already done that.
It is in the bonus download as well as the things I'm going to talk about today. You'll be able to
see videos, instructional videos on how to do the specific exercises that we're going to talk about
for some of those strategies. So make sure you get your download in the show notes on how to start
running without having shin pain. So my first tip for you on strategies to overcome shin splints
not only for the short term. These are not quick fixes. This is forever and it is amazing because
when you google shin splints you get a lot of quick fixes and on YouTube there's a lot of
like people are like get rid of your shin and splint pain in one minute. Like okay that's great.
You want to feel good for like one minute or do you want to feel good forever? I don't know. I
would take forever whenever I have the chance. So the first thing is mindset and it really relates
to you having an optimistic mindset. You can develop a strong running body so you can stay healthy
and withstand a training cycle. It is not your shoes that are causing your shin splints.
And because you have shin pain doesn't mean that you're not meant to be a runner. And it doesn't
mean that you can't run. That's exactly what I thought when I first tried to actually be a runner.
Like right after college when I was running on the treadmill before my workouts in the gym.
If I did too much I would basically get shin pain and I was like I would never be a runner.
Like hey now look at me right like 20 years later. But I think this is very important because I
see a lot of runners who are like I can never be a quote unquote runner because my shins always
hurt me. And I always get shin splints or like my body's broken like I get shin splints. Like
this is a very common injury in a lot of novice runners and it can be overcome. So
by you knowing that is super powerful because the mind is a powerful resource that we have.
So I want you to be optimistic in approaching and overcoming your shin splints for good
because yes you will get over this. This is not something that you need to live with
for the rest of your running career running journey whatever you want to call it.
You can actually run for 10 20 30 40 years without having shin pain. So that's the first thing I do
want to cover. This second point where the second tip on how we're going to actually get rid of
your shin splint pain forever is really relating to our strength training bucket.
And in our six steps for growing as a runner you know one of the steps is like mindset. So this was
kind of the mind tip one was covering kind of the mindset piece tip two and tip three is going to
really kind of go in that strength training bucket. And this really speaks to couple principles that
we as runners need to strength train order to run but we need to activate run specific muscles
and then we need to build strength on one leg. So we need to strengthen the muscles around your
shin. So I have six shin splint exercises specifically for runners. These are the best
shin splint exercises to relieve anterior shin splints or medial tibial stress syndrome in runners.
Remember if you want to find out what those are go get the ebook to find out the difference
between the two. So I'm going to kind of tell you my six exercises here. Again, I have an
instructional video on exactly how to do these. But the first one is a minivan ankle eversion in
sitting. This is to isolate the e-verters which are the muscles on the outside of your shin.
So that's kind of target those muscles. This can be beneficial if you have pain on the outside of
your shin but also can be beneficial if you have pain on the inside part of your shin
because we want to strengthen all the muscles around your lower leg and your shin. The second
exercise is a minivan ankle inversion in sitting where you cross your leg over. This one is commonly
not performed given to you by like your generic PT. So there are like generic exercises on how
to do ankle inversion and eversion that all PTs learn. It's like PT basics. Like I teach PT
students in our graduate program. That's what they learn in like the beginning courses by the
time they get to me in all the orthopedic courses. We show them kind of these exercises like the
next level. So a lot of your generic PTs let's say might not have given you these. This inversion
in sitting I like a lot where we cross the leg over because we can focus on this slow lowering
component which I find is a common problem that a lot of runners have especially if you are a
over-pronator or have kind of flat feet you've been told that you roll in a lot in your foot and ankle.
Your poster to be able to tend in a lot of time has been overstretched and doesn't have the control
and or strength to control all of that motion that occurs when you run. Not saying it's a bad thing
that that motion occurs when you run. It's just if you have that foot type you just have a more
susceptibility to getting overuse of that posterior tibial tendon. So that can cause pain on the
inside part of your shin or in the inside part of your ankle. So we need to strengthen it and that's
how we can actually isolate that muscle that tendon out crossing one leg over hooking up your band.
It allows us to be in the right plane of motion. Again when I see people do generic going in and
going out the direction of the band and the resistance matters because if the direction of your force
isn't in the proper direction you're actually not using the muscles that we're trying to use the
muscles when we do these motions that we call inversion and eversion. So that's the second exercise.
Third exercise. Minibands side stepping at the feet. So this is a common one that you've probably
seen most runners do. I have it on my channel. We've talked about it in previous episodes of
strengthening your side hip muscles. Probably the most important muscles that we have as runners.
You're gluteus medius. There's muscle underneath that. The minimus. Very important for stabilizing
our pelvis on one leg as we run. However, I like to have this variation to give a little more isolation
to the outside lower leg shin muscles. Those e-verters again. So we're going to get a little more bang
for our buck here. We get the hip muscles but then we also get the lower leg muscles. But you have
to make sure when you do it you really try to bring your feet out to the side. Our resistance now is
past the ankle. So we're going to help get some of that strengthening effect to those shin muscles.
The next exercise. So the fourth exercise in this series we're talking about are toe lifts
with elevated heels. Usually I'll put heels on maybe a plate in the gym. You can do a curve. You can do
rolled up yoga mat. You're going to lift up your toes and then slowly lower them down.
Really focusing on the slowly lowering down part because that's how these muscles function when we
run. Your foot actually especially if you're heel striker guys, your heel sitting the ground
when you run and then your shin muscles are slowly lowering your toe down to the ground.
Or they're trying to. If they slap too hard then that's a lot of force and that's how we get
overuse. That's how we get tightness. That's why we get pain. So we want to train these muscles
eccentrically with a slow lowering. So that's our toe lifts with elevated heels. Next is a kettlebell
lift with your foot. So you're going to basically have a kettlebell on the floor. You're going to be
in a standing position. You're going to put your foot inside the kettlebell. You're going to lift
the kettlebell up with your foot. So this is an isometric ankle dorsiflexion exercise
to strengthen your front shin muscles. But then we also get a little bonus, a little bang for our
buck here is training on one leg principle that I am a big fan of. So we get closed chain so that
leg that's on the ground. We actually get you to stabilize with your pelvis, with your core,
with your side hip muscles as you come down. And then it also strengthens your hip flexors as well.
So we've talked about that in previous episodes where we talked about our top five muscles to
strengthen the hip muscles and our freebie glute guide how to get strong glutes. We talked about
a similar exercise that I do with a minivan. Here I really like the kettlebell to really
increase the emphasis on those front shin muscles. Lastly, sixth exercise is really going to target
the calf muscles and then the inner shin muscles. So the posterior tibial tendon,
posterior tibial muscles, I like to do a calf raise with a ball squeeze. So you can use a tennis ball,
a cross ball. I love my Naboso ball because recovery ball, multiple purposes. But this will
help you target by rising up on your toes, pushing your heels together to get ankle inversion,
bring your heels apart a little bit without dropping the ball, and then slowly lower down.
You rise up on your toes, push the heel together, bring the heel out, slowly lower down. This is
going to strengthen those calf muscles as well as your inner shin muscles.
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All right, how many times should we be doing this? You might be asking, generally speaking,
I do like to have most runners be able to do like 10 of these and do them as a circuit.
You're going to do like once a day, 10 times, going through all six of those exercises. Remember,
you can have myself, yours truly, walk you through the instructional video. We can do it together
and I can kind of talk you through those exercises by clicking the downloadable PDF in the show notes.
The third way to end shin splint pain forever is performing the short foot exercise. So again,
this really goes in our strength training bucket. The short foot exercise is one of the best ways
to fix foot pain in runners as well as shin pain. So I have an activation series of exercise that's
really key to strengthening the muscles on the bottom of your foot that we use when we run.
And it is one of the best ways to prevent, you know, plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendonitis,
posterior tibial tendonitis, which could be a form of shin splints and really improve the
stability of your foot muscles. So you don't need to rely on orthotics. Don't get me wrong. They
may be beneficial in the short term for shin splints, but you don't want to wear orthotics forever to
cure your shin splints for the long term. So we can actually learn how to activate the muscles on
the bottom of our foot. Trust me, I've been there before. I wore orthotics for like 15 years straight,
custom foot orthotics. I literally could not activate my foot muscles whatsoever when I tried,
you know, four years ago, through training, through learning how to tap into these muscles,
I can assure you that I know how to activate these muscles. And quite frankly, I use less
supportive footwear during my everyday activities in strength training because my foot muscles now
are a lot stronger and can stabilize my foot. So by you learning how to activate these muscles,
that can help take a lot of stress off of your lower shin muscles. So it helps with kind of that
stability and support of your foot, lower leg area to take stress off your shins. The fourth
way that you can actually get rid of shin splint pain forever is a very important one and it really
relates to the run plan bucket and your actual running. And what I'm going to talk about is really
your running form and increasing your step rate or cadence. This can really prevent overstriding
with running. And I do want to kind of point to a study that was done back in 2016 by Lutik.
I probably butchered your name, so my apologies. And Hidershite and their group really looked at
some cross country athletes. And this was actually a prospective study design. So they kind of
followed these individuals, collected some data, followed them and then found out who got shin
splint pain. And they really looked at a relationship and found that there was decreased step rate.
So those that had less than in their sample, 164 steps per minute, had a higher chance of shin
splint pain versus those that had increased step rate. And this is something that I commonly see
when I am evaluating the runners that I work with, their running form and we're analyzing it.
There is this kind of lower cadence and increase in overstriding, especially for those that have a
big heel strike, meaning when we freeze frame your running video, your heel is on the ground and
your toe is like way up. It's a lot of degrees off the ground. So that toe has a long distance
to travel to get flat on the ground in the next phase of your running gait cycle. And
it's almost this overstriding. So it's a lot of impact as well. So your heel smacks the ground
and those ground reaction forces go up into your shin. So it's like running with the parking brake
on. So a lot of times by just correcting this and working on increasing your step rate or cadence
can may actually improve overstriding and a lot of the runners that I see. So for decades,
like we've been told that 180 steps per minute was like the ideal cadence for running.
This originally happened a little backstory by Jack Daniels, a legendary coach, observed,
encountered like turnover of pro distance runners who were racing in the 1984 Olympics.
But there's been a lot of research done on this and has found that running cadence does vary
greatly depending upon running speed, meaning that you shouldn't expect to have the same cadence
when you're running faster than when you're running slower. So as you know, hopefully,
you've been listening to the podcast before that most of the runs that we go on, so approximately
80% of the runs during your week should be running an easy conversational pace. And those runs will
not have the same cadence than when we run faster. If you are doing faster speed work, such as tempo
runs, threshold pace work, interval runs, or when you're racing, right, your cadence is going to
naturally actually get faster when we run faster as well. So keep that in mind. Also keep in mind
that taller runners have been shown in research to have lower step frequencies than shorter runners.
So, you know, this really makes sense because taller runners instinctally have longer legs,
or if you are not so tall, like I'm not extremely tall, I'm 5'11", but I do have longer legs. So,
you know, it really will take fewer steps per minute to cover the same distance than so
one with shorter legs. So just keep that in mind. So if you are, you know, tall, you have really tall,
you know, long legs, don't expect your cadence to be in like the 180s. Like I find that extremely
rare. And if it is like, you got a super high cadence and I question, are you actually suffering
inefficiencies? Is it actually more inefficient for you to run at that high of a cadence than it is
for you to run at a little lower cadence? So, you know, we don't have all the answers to cadence yet,
but I will tell you, do two patterns that I've seen in my clinical experience,
if you have shin splints and your cadence is on the low side and you're checking your watch,
you know, garments telling you you're like 140s, 150s, I would definitely try to bump up your cadence
a little bit. A little bit can make a world of a difference. So just trying to increase your cadence
by six steps per minute initially, eight steps per minute. If you're in 140s, you know, then we got
some work to go, but don't try to go from like 140s to 170 because usually that's going to result in
your runs feeling terrible because your body's not used to doing that and you're going to be very
inefficient and you're going to be exerting a lot of energy, your heart rate's going to spike up.
So think about smaller changes can have a lasting impact. So most of the clients I work with,
you know, I would say typically most people will be in like the upper 150s, lower 160s. So I will,
you know, if they're in the, if they're in the 150s, then I'll say let's set a goal, you know,
in these next four weeks that I just want you to check in on your watch during your easy runs.
Because those are the ones that are really, you know, you can kind of drift and your cadence might
get a little slow and sloppy, I like to call it. So we want to keep it slow and conversational,
but not slow and sloppy. So just check your cadence on your watch and usually most of the plans on
your watch, it doesn't automatically set. So you got to do a little custom screen at cadence.
So now you can just check in. I don't want you to perseverate on it. I don't want you to like
look at it the whole time, like, Oh my God, some 158. Oh my God, some 162 like check in every now
and again, make sure that you're in a range that's, you know, acceptable. We're going to call it
the acceptable zone and improving your cadence or your step rate can have a dramatic effect
that I found at decreasing your shin splint pain.
I hope you are enjoying this episode and it is providing value for you. I wanted to take a brief
moment to share a story of a real runner like you who is struggling with a common problem that
you may be facing. Here's one of our athletes who got the guidance, support and accountability
from our healthy runner coaching team to get clarity and structure on the six steps to growing
as a runner with personalized strength, nutrition and run plans. I hope their story inspires you
that there is hope to either get over your running injury or to continue getting faster
or running longer so you can continue to get in those mental clearing miles and enjoy your running
journey again. Here is their inspiring story.
Hi y'all, my name is Ann and I just wanted to share my story and journey with Spark running.
So I had developed shin splints about 12 years ago to the point of actually almost having
stress fractures in both of my legs. So at that time I did physical therapy, all that good stuff,
but pretty quickly had this label kind of put on me of like I'm just always going to have chronic
shin splints and that's just that's just it. My sister luckily had worked with Dwayne a few years
ago and had kind of gotten me set up with Spark so I was like following them in social media.
I always got all the emails, I always read them and I would read them be like oh that's awesome
for everyone else but I like I know that that's not going to work for me, I have chronic shin splints.
Last fall I decided you know what's the harm and at least talking to these the so-called Dwayne
here kind of what his thoughts are. Set up a phone call, explored what the program was and
everything and he immediately let me know that like running was for me and just because I have had
you know this experience in the last 10 plus years doesn't mean that it's not for me. So despite my
little bit of reservations right like I've always really enjoyed running and I've felt a little
intimidated of like wow this is like a whole running program like this is only for real runners.
It was very wrong so I ended up signing I ended up signing up for the 16 week one-on-one coaching
with Dwayne and it was incredible. Not once did I ever feel like self-conscious or embarrassed by
my speed like regardless of where we were in this entire program that he created the focus was always
on what is my form what am I doing and am I at a point to be running pain free. One of the coolest
things about it as well was I actually I mean North Carolina so I was a little hesitant to have like
like how could I possibly do this program when I'm not even like actually located in Connecticut
but it worked out just as well. I had the ability to reach out to Dwayne when I ever had questions
and I did. I had a few other I wouldn't say injuries but things that came up along the way and Dwayne
always responded to me you know sent me up with resources that would helped me be able to continue
to run. If you are considering doing any one of these running programs working with a running coach
I just like this is your sign I can't encourage you to do it enough it has truly opened up all
these different doors to me to the point of I'm actually in half marathon in about eight weeks or
so and the ability to be doing this half marathon pain free and feeling confident in my abilities to
do that is something that I didn't even know that I was going to be getting outside of doing this
program. I hope sharing that story inspired you and provided you some hope if you want the one-on-one
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so now coming up next we're going to get to the final to help you get stronger
for running so you don't have shin splints but before I do that if this training has been
eye-opening to you and you're surprised that there are actually specific strategies to overcome shin
splints for good and they're not like these quick fixes so you can actually become a runner
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copy link share it with a running friend of yours please and thank you the fifth final tip to
overcoming shin splints for good is really resulting in the recovery bucket if you will so two strategies
that I found extremely helpful is one compression socks and then two foam rolling your lower leg
before and after your runs and this can include even on rest days so first compression socks the
reason I say that is if you feel like your shin muscles are tight or you know they feel like heavy
dull achy you can improve a little bit they're not like magic pills here guys but I found that
even from anecdotal personal experience with compression socks I have felt increased blood flow
it does add that sensory compression element that can help alleviate a little pain from an
allogesic standpoint that you can wear either during your run or after your runs if you feel
like your shins are sore after your runs then maybe try some compression socks and see if that
makes you feel better so I kind of put compression socks in the recovery bucket as a tool to be able
to help us recover from our runs next is going to be foam rolling so specifically the lower leg
muscles and really the inside calf muscle especially for those of you who have inside shin pain if
you have outside shin pain yes you can easily roll the pronial muscles those e-vertor muscles on the
outside you can roll the front of your shins I don't find as much success honestly rolling that area
but I do find a lot of success rolling the inside part of your shin and I like to do that with
active motion of pumping your ankle up and down as you roll the inside part of the shin how do we
get to the inside part turn your leg inward and that will give access to that inside soleus muscle
and kind of wear that posterior tibial muscle and tendon kind of comes out on the inside part of
your shin so you can find out exactly how to foam roll that muscle by clicking the download PDF in
the show notes if you have been struggling to overcome your shin splints and you want clarity
and focus on how you can get over your stubborn shin splints that's exactly what we do with our
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lastly remember earlier how I said that if you don't implement these five tips to end
shin splint pain forever you will continue to get frustrated feeling lost worrying about your
shins maybe suffer a stress fracture and not be able to become a runner so be sure to download
your freebie that I have for you in the show notes click the link and take action implement these
and these principles and if you're consistent with this like this will work all right I can't
have you do these strategies you need to do them and you can't expect your shin pain to go away in
like three days most people especially if you've been struggling for a while this is going to take
time and consistency all right if this was insightful for you if this was helpful when you mind
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