…ay I’m going to talk about a common running injury called shin splints. So shin splints are the pain that you had maybe once in your life, maybe in high school, maybe you’ve got it now where you’ve got pain in the lower leg usually in the front of your lower leg, your sort of shin muscles there next to your shin bone. And usually the prescribed treatment is the good old Dixie Cup. You take a frozen Dixie Cup, cut off or scrape off the bottom of th…
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Shin Splints Treatment, Prevention, and Video – Save the Frozen Veges for Dinner
…rubbed a Dixie cup of ice up and down their shins to deal with the painful shin splints. While this is still being prescribed today by many coaches, athletic trainers, and physical therapists, I think that the Dixie cup itself is just as effective in treating shin splints as the actual ice. There are two types of shin splints – anterior (front of the leg), and posterior (back of the leg). In either case, the shin splints occur from a muscle imbala…
Running Injury Treatment & Prevention: The Soleus & Achilles
…fasciitis, probably one of the most common injuries. Achilles tendinitis, shin splints, these lower leg, foot, ankle injuries, super common. So since we have kind of a short time tonight, I wanted to think, or I thought about one muscle that a lot of people underestimate, maybe undervalue, and can make a pretty big difference in how you can prevent an injury, and also how you train, and that’s your soleus muscle. Maybe you’ve heard of that muscle…
Grinding Away: Bruxism
…d like a machine factory whose gears need oil. Understand that these night splints don’t correct any problem – but they will hopefully keep you from ruining your teeth and maybe also provide some relief by removing some stress from your jaw and cranial muscles. Unfortunately, many night splints are made incorrectly by those in the profession. As my dentist correspondent likes to say – it’s like “putting a rectangle into a triangle”. For every 1mm…
About Sock Doc
…a comment under the appropriate post section. If you have a question about shin splints, simply ask it as a comment under that post. See here for office appointments and phone consultations with me. Do you know of a doctor in my area who practices similarly as you do? Over the past year or so I have begun teaching other doctors how to utilize my assessment and treatment protocols. Like myself, their background is in chiropractic. They follow my ph…
Sock Doc: Foot Pain & Foot Injuries – Natural Treatment & Prevention
…or. But if you feel like you’re having that sort of problem, check out the shin splints video, because that’s where I really talk about your tibialis posterior. Let’s go right into Morton’s toe and Morton’s neuroma. Morton’s toe is actually when the first metatarsal is shorter than the second. A lot of people think that you have to have a second toe longer than your first to have a Morton’s toe, but that’s not necessarily the case. They could actu…
Running Pronation & Overpronation
…rly. I’ve talked about this muscle several times because it has to do with shin splints. It has to do with Plantar Fascitis. It has to do even with Neuromas. When people get Martin’s Nueroma in their foot. The Tibialis Posterior originates behind your Tibia and your Fibula in your upper leg here, or I’ll say the upper part of your lower leg, wraps around the inside and attaches to all this interosious membrane, this thick weblike material that kee…
Kuru Footwear Gonna Help Your Plantar Fasciitis?
…h of muscle) of the foot. Today this is treated conventionally with “night splints” to help stretch the fascia, and reduce muscle contracture. It is not a very comfortable way to sleep and the therapy is about as beneficial and primitive as a caveman making a square wheel. As with most pain, anti-inflammatories are prescribed—and they only further mask the symptoms. Often muscle trigger points (sore spots) can be found in the calf muscles, especia…
Sock Doc Video: Treatment & Prevention of ITB Syndrome
…in the shin muscle here, your tibialis anterior. Very commonly people get shin splints. So that’s another area to look at. A third area to look for tenderness, is the inside of the knee here. What happens is, I’ll show you on this side, there’s three important muscles that attach to the inside of the knee. When one, two, or even all three of these muscles fatigue, what happens is the muscles on the outside, and now a major part of the iliotibial…
Sock Doc: Foot Strength, Foot Rehabilitation, & Healthy Progression Towards Barefoot Movement
…ly progress up so I can do those things without injuring myself. These exercises are also great for foot rehab from Achilles tendinitis, plantar fasciitis, shin splints, those sorts of things. And help your overall balance and health. Thanks….
Plantar Fasciitis: Healing Up Your Heel Pain
…cle, I discuss it a lot on the Sock Doc site, because it’s implicated with shin splints, Achilles tendinitis, of course, people who get, you know, the pump bumps in back where it catches onto your calcaneus. It makes up a lot of that connective tissue on the bottom of your foot, along with your tibialis posterior muscle. That’s why these are more of that plantar fasciitis-type disorders that people have pain with. So, with your soleus, much more s…
Overpronation Is Really Not Your Problem
…levels of cortisol and tibialis posterior problems and then overpronation. Shin splints and plantar fasciitis are two common injuries that accompany this problem too. Another adrenal gland hormone, aldosterone, is necessary for sodium regulation and electrolyte balance in the body. You may have heard the term hyponatremia before – more can be read here. If you’re training too hard and anaerobic too much then you’ll end up with cortisol and aldoste…
Plantar Fasciitis: The Pain You’ve Got That Doesn’t Even Really Exist
…sis). If your soleus isn’t functioning well you can get anything from shin splints, Achilles tendonitis, heel spurs, Morton’s neuroma, and plantar fasciitis. If your soleus is more of the problem you might feel more pain pushing off (plantar flexion of the foot), walking tippy-toes, and climbing stairs. Again, check out the video for trigger points for the soleus. Also, soleus problems can sometimes cause deep knee pain where tibialis posterior pr…
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…ca Treatment & Prevention of Achilles Tendonitis Treatment & Prevention of Shin Splints Treatment & Prevention of ITB Syndrome Treatment & Prevention of Plantar Fasciitis Running Injury Treatment & Prevention: The Soleus & Achilles Leg Power: Key Muscles For Stability, Balance, & Performance Posterior Thigh Pain – Hamstrings, Calves, or Glutes? Assess, Treat, Rehab, and Develop! Foot Strength, Foot Rehabilitation, & Healthy Progression Towards Bar…
The Least of Your Concerns: Arch Height, Weight, and Length
…health – it’s a big deal when it comes to healing joints. How about more cushin’ (in your shoe) when you’re pushin’ (the miles)? The answer to this is not only definitely no, but actually less cushion. Yes, the Sock Doc may have a habit of saying the opposite of the conventional “wisdom” but there is always a valid explanation why; at least I think so. Peak forces while running actually occur in midstance, not when the heel hits the ground, where…
Common Running Injuries
…ibial band syndrome. Maybe you’ve got pain on the front of your lower leg, shin splints, or some numbing-type sensation in your foot, Morton’s neuroma. All these injuries, for the most part, unless of course you actually fell and injured a muscle or injured a joint or a tendon at that time, most injuries are the symptom. They’re not the cause of what’s going on with you. They’re the end result of something else that you’ve done for a while, and ha…
Achilles Tendonitis
…muscles resulting in names like Achilles tendonitis, plantar fasciitis, or shin splints. But remember, it’s more important to diagnose WHY you have a problem rather than exactly WHAT you have. So whether you’re told you have tendonitis, bursitis, or a good ol’ pump bump, it means your calf muscle(s) aren’t working well and you’re biting off more than you can chew. In the Achilles tendonitis video I show ways to find the trigger points in the calf…
Sock Doc: Trigger Point Video – Natural Treatment & Prevention
…o this a little longer. If you’re feeling the pain in there and it’s diminishing and especially if it’s radiating toward where you have your pain. In this case if I’m pushing on my calf here and I’m feeling it down more towards my Achilles and that’s, that’s resolving some of my Achilles pain, then you can continue to do that until it plateaus off or obviously you no longer feel pain in that area. And then once you do you’re pretty much good to go…
No Need For Knee Pain – Running, Cycling, or Anytime
…, irritability and blood sugar handling problems, and perhaps a history of shin splints or plantar fasciitis. Sleep problems as I discuss here, and poor performance while training and racing are signs that the adrenals are taxed too. Evaluation of overall stress – training, diet, and lifestyle is of utmost importance. The muscles of the back of the knee cannot be forgotten as they often are. The hamstrings as well as the calf muscles are two of th…
Plantar Fasciitis: How Runners Can Learn How To Step Out of the Pain
…h of muscle) of the foot. Today this is treated conventionally with “night splints” to help stretch the fascia, and reduce muscle contracture. It is not a very comfortable way to sleep and the therapy is about as beneficial and primitive as a caveman making a square wheel. As with most pain, anti-inflammatories are prescribed as are orthotics, which only support the dysfunction and weaken foot muscles. Here’s why you really get it, and really fix…
Are Orthotics Really Ever Necessary?
…footwear. When this muscle is injured, symptoms like plantar fasciitis and shin splints can be the result, leading one to perhaps resort to orthotics. As I show in my videos of the respective subjects, these injuries can often be treated very successfully in other, more natural, ways. A gait disturbance is another very common reason for a person to have muscular imbalances and joint dysfunctions leading them to seek out help and orthotics. I recen…
Knee Pain & Injuries (1/2) – Anterior & Lateral On FLOW
…of the outside of your knee here, in your tibia, which people know as your shin bone. So pretty much that’s a sharp pain and people will feel it primarily when your leg is straight for too long, that can happen, obviously. If you’re sleeping at night, you wake up in the morning, you try and bend your leg, it’s killing you or walking down stairs will hurt the outside of your knee a lot, running, even walking, any jumping aspect, sharp knife-like pa…
Foot Injuries On FLOW
…I want you to look for points especially on the inside of this tibia, your shin bone that people know as, and coming with your thumbs like this and work your way down the inside of your tibia right on the inside there. So you can’t get it from the back, because as I showed in the ankle video, you’re going to be really going through the calves here. Even if you’re a skinny person, the muscles are too thick there to try and get to this muscle, becau…
Sock Doc: Treatment & Prevention of Plantar Fasciitis
…k for trigger points, especially down inside your tibia bone which is your shin bone. Run your thumb down the inside of that tibia bone and look for tender spots throughout the leg coming all the way down, especially where it attaches to the arch of your foot. So here, all the way up on the inside of this tibia bone, not back here on your calf. So you’re not coming this way, but you’re coming in like that. Also, behind the calf in here and in here…