Please help my shins hurt?

Question

yesterday i walked about 2 miles on the road. and last night my shins started to ache really really bad and i can barley walk and still hurts. they are not swollen or red they just hurt really bad. i'm 12 and i started school on tuesday. whats wrong with them. and how do i make them feel better.

Answer 1

Sounds like shin splints to me. Shin splints are a real pain. It's nothing major a lot of people get them. Your best bet is to stay off of it. You may want to massage you shins and use heat to relax the muscle. See if your parents will buy you some Doctor Schulz's gels to help ease the pain when you walk. The pain should reside withing two weeks if you stay off of it.

Answer 2

two words. Shin Splints. What it is: when you run flatfooted/walk, or have bad shoes on, the muscle in your shins separates or pulls away from the bone, causing it to be sore. If you have a sharp pain in your shin when you put weight or pressure on your leg, or if you can pin-point an exact spot where it hurts, you have shin splints.

What you can do:

RICE- Rest. Keep off your feet if you can. But, since you are in school, I suggest not running if you aren't in PE or athletics; Ice. Put ice on your shins on the spot it hurts. Keep it on for bout 20 min. Then, you can do heat, but probably is best not to, since it is inflamed; Compression. Wrap your shins with athletic or medical tape if you do have to run. It will keep the muscle firmly next to the bone while it heals; Elevation. Just stay off you feet, and you can have your legs up on a pillow. It feels good, and it can't hurt.

EXERCISE. Bend down to touch your toes. (even if you can go all the way down, just stop with your hands at about your knees.) now, wiggle your toes/ front of your feet up and down as fast as you can. Do it until you can feel your shins warming up. Then, do it a little longer. Do this several times a day. in the morning. before PE/athletics. after PE/athletics. at night before bed.

MEDICATE. Take ibuprofen as suggested on bottle. This will also help the inflamation.

HEALED!!! It will probably take about a week to two weeks to heal, depending on how active you are. the less active you are, the faster you will heal.

PREPARE. Next time, wear good shoes when walking a ways. and, now that you've had shin splints, you are more likely to get it again, so before PE/athletics, do that toe excercise. it will help prevent shin splints.

Hope this helps! Feel better! :)

Wishing you a speedy recovery,

         Bek

Answer 3

There is nothing like a good walk to clear your head!

Do you stretch/warm up before and after (Cool Down) your routines? If not this could be the tightness you are feeling in your thighs.

An effective warm up also has the effect of increasing both your heart rate and your respiratory rate. This increases blood flow, which in turn increases the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the working muscles. All this helps to prepare the muscles, tendons and joints for more strenuous activity

Read more about this here:

http://www.thestretchinghandbook.com/arc...

The main aim of the cool down is to promote recovery and return the body to a pre exercise, or pre work out level. During a strenuous work out your body goes through a number of stressful processes. Muscle fibres, tendons and ligaments get damaged, and waste products build up within your body.

Read more about this here:

http://www.thestretchinghandbook.com/arc...

Once you implement a good stretching routine you should start to feel less sore each day, if the soreness persists you may be over doing things so have a day off in between your walks.

Good Luck I hope this helps!

Answer 4

umm the fact you walked 2 miles in flip flops might have something to do with it just rest as much as you can take paracetamol for the pain in the morning your legs probs just need to get used to walking long distances and dont do it in flip flops again xx

Answer 5

you probably have shin splints from walking a lot and your body isn't used to it. So you should just ice them for 20min on and then 20 min off. It seems to help me and that's what my trainer told me to do.  

Answer 6

Sounds like you have shin splints. This happens when you put physical strain on your body while walking or running. As previous posters have said, you need to heat and then cool them.

Given that you only walked 2 miles, this suggests that you are not physically in shape. (Which is the reason why the first poster suggested you start working on that) By the way, weight doesn't indicate how in shape you are. Someone underweight can be as out of shape as someone over weight.  Maybe it was your shoes, but if this is consistent, you should to work on your physical health.

Answer 7

get ICYHOT and get into shape

Answer 8

What you have is a condition called "shin splints"  I got this ALL the time when I ran cross country in High School.  It is caused generally from running and/or walking long distances on hard surfaces (concrete, blacktop, etc) To treat them you should alternate soaking them in a warm bath and icing them.  It will get better but once you start to get them, they usually come back habitually.

If I remember correctly I was told by my physical trainer in High School that the pressure from running on the hard surface causes the muscles to slightly pull away from the bone.  It is really no serious harm, just uncomfortable feeling.