Shin splints

If you are an athlete, you are not new to injuries. In fact, being an athlete means you are a high risk for injury, specifically foot and ankle-related problems. One reason why athletes are prone to foot and ankle-related injuries is because it is the most common body part being used in most sports such as basketball, soccer, running, and even dancing. There are many common foot and ankle injuries that you need to be extra careful of. Once you have a suspected injury, your doctor may examine…

Chloe, Buca and I shadowed Brian Kampa, who is a physical therapist/ athletic trainer on January 12th. We shadowed Brian for a girls varsity hockey game at Bernicks Arena. There were no injuries that occurred during the event. The most common injuries to occur during a hockey game are groin strains. They can be caused quick movements and change of direction. This can happen in when a player does a hard stop to try to chase a puck. Also muscle imbalances in the area of the groin can put the…

your performances during workouts in practice. If you showed the coach what you were capable of, you were most likely put in a meet the next day or weekend. As much as I dreaded to go to practice, because I was tired or I had pain in my legs from shin splints, I still managed to push through all that, so I could be put in meets. Track practices were always intense workouts, but they made us stronger as a team. The harder we worked and focused during practice we usually got a day off or more…

of the games they played during the weekend and that it slowly got better as the game went on. Although she did say that the pain returns after she cooled down after the game and was still present the next day. She said it felt very similar to “shin splints” which she had had once before. After doing an evaluation and finding out that there was no fractures, sprains, or strains, it was decided that this athlete had the prognosis of medial tibial stress syndrome. Medial tibial stress syndrome…

this sport. It all started when I won my first race in third grade, that was the moment when I really fell in love with running. My sophomore year of cross country is when my running career came to a stop because of my shin hurting, at first I thought it was just shin splints because I had been running hard for the two weeks prior. Then the pain lasted for three weeks and during that time I was icing and doing all different exercises to strengthen my legs. My coach found out and decided to…

of the heel. However, to fully understand your gait, you should have it evaluated by a podiatrist using various means such as video monitoring and pressure mat testing. Oversupination causes problems such as ankle sprains, stress fractures, and shin splints. This gait abnormality can be treated with an orthotic insert and the correct running shoe that absorbs shock when your heel hits the pavement. While overpronation and oversupination are not medical problems themselves, they can lead to…

broken bones, shin splints to more recently Osgood-Schlatter’s disease, all of which have prevented me from playing from time to time. This is how I discovered the importance of physiotherapists and the work they do to aid recovery and prevent other injuries. The more time I spent being treated by physiotherapists the more intrigued I became in the job they perform, helping athletes such as myself. I recently read a study on the prevention of medial tibial stress syndrome (shin splints) written…

President and American author, Theodore Roosevelt, said, “With self-discipline, all things are possible.” This is something that I would say can apply to not only every athlete but anyone trying to accomplish anything in life. My parents have always pushed me to be involved in activities and put forth effort in all that I do. As I have grown up, there have been several lessons I’ve learned from cross country that influenced my choices today. My work ethic in all that I do can relate back to the…

and/or dislocations. If you play golf or tennis you an injury in the elbow from swinging your arm a lot. There is another common injury and that is sciatica, which is pain in the back. There are two more frequent injuries in the leg and they are shin splints and ACL tear or pull. Then finally you probably know about concussions and that where your brain shakes or rumbles cause a lot pain, and it can be very serious (unitypoint).…

Close to 7,000,000 high school students around the U.S. participate in an organized sports program sometime during the school year. Young athletes that participate in a high school sport should have more conditioning time during their practices because of how many injuries are accounted each year. Two many students are getting hurt during a school year because of sports. The U.S. Centers of Disease Control (CDC), estimated that high school athletes account for about 2 million injuries and…