Can't jog due to shin splints - help please!

The pain comes back later? Really? Well a year and a half later...still running & still no pain coming back. Strange that considering I ran mine out.

In that case you didn't have shinsplints.

According to the physio I was seeing it was. Sorry but I don't just assume that it's what it was. Did you think that perhaps my form got better? Or that perhaps I'm just fortunate enough to be running how I should run for me?

I did have shin splints & unless you are medically trained to know what was going on at the time, then you should....shhhhhhhhhhhh

The pain comes back later? Really? Well a year and a half later...still running & still no pain coming back. Strange that considering I ran mine out.

In that case you didn't have shinsplints.

According to the physio I was seeing it was. Sorry but I don't just assume that it's what it was.

fwiw I also had a physio tell me I had shinsplints, and I followed the advice accordingly

The orthopaedic surgeon that had to undo the damage that the physio had done explained the difference to me. I'm likely to need further knee and ankle reconstruction in the future.

One of the reasons that I get a little agitated when people suggest running through any lower leg injury.

And that's a fair response - most of us have only got our own experience on which to base our opinions. In my experience (anecdotal, not medical) most people who start a running plan get sore shins - for the reasons mentioned above. If you look up sore shins from running on the internet - what's the most dramatic thing that comes up? Or ask a friend - they'll say "it sounds like shin splints,....." and voila - we have an excuse to stop exercising. I can't do that, I have a medical condition.

Every time I'm at a social event with new acquaintances, if the topic of exercise comes up, someones gonna say "I can't run, I have shin splints."

There isn't an epidemic of shin splints rampaging through the running community - so let's go with Occam's Razor - the simplest solution, is probably the correct one.

cheers

I HATE ELLIPTICALS. So if you're like me, you do too. Like everyone else is saying, gradually increase your running time and give yourself a set time for walking. C25K does that, but I personally couldn't keep up with it. I've never been a runner or athletic or anything, so I have basically just set my own pace.

I'm sorry, I didn't read all the replies, but when you changed your trainers did you get fitted in a store that only sells running shoes? I made the mistake of thinking for YEARS that I was the problem, then got fitted at a local running store. My splints were gone within a week. I had been going to sporting goods stores before then.

Otherwise, when I was training with Team in Training, the coaches always told everyone that as long as you went slowly adding mileage, and took days off, your muscles in your legs would eventually get used to the exercise.