Can Yoga Cure Shin Splints?
Shin splints is the name given to a painful condition of the front, lower leg; the shin. If you happen to suffer from this painful and potentially debilitating problem, you will be interested to hear that yoga exercises have been proven to help to allay the pain, and to speed recovery. Shin splints are usually associated with athletes, although they can also affect you if you are a non-athlete but you spend a lot of time on your feet. It is classified as an “overuse injury”. Despite the name, which misleads people into believing that shin splints is a condition of the actual shin bone, (there is a common misconception that it refers to small fractures of the shin bone – the tibia), it is an inflammatory reaction of the deep tissues, (possibly involving both tendons and muscles), where they enter the front or back of your tibia. In most cases, the resultant tenderness is felt between 1″ to 6″ above your foot. Shin splints are normally categorized as being either medial or anterior; medi
