What Are Shin Splints?
Hello everyone, Now that it is getting much nicer out, and the Chicago Marathon is on the radar of runners, many patients are coming in with and asking me about shin splints. From the name, shin splints, it sounds as if it should be a minor fracture or splinter in the bone somehow, but it is not. Symptoms of shin splints are pain in the front if the lower leg, below the knee and toward the ankle. The pain may not present while running, but can commonly begin to increase aft
