Medi-Dyne Pain Solution and Treatment for Heel, Back, and Shins

What Is Shin Spints?

The term shin splints refers to pain along the large bone on the front of your leg, called your shinbone or tibia. The pain results from an overload on the shinbone and the connective tissues that attach your muscles to the bone. People with shin splints often complain of mild swelling, soreness, or pain along the inner part of their lower leg or at their shin bone.

If not treated, you may experience more time with the pain, and less time without it.

Treating And Preventing Shin Splints

While the most immediate relief comes from ceasing activity, rest, ice, compression, and elevation, everyday life must continue. So what can you do?

Lessen The Impact

Every time the heel of your foot hits the ground, a shock wave travels up through your body, all the way to your head. Healthy lower legs will absorb a lot of this shock. Making sure that your arches are properly supported and your shoes are providing maximum shock absorption will lessen the pain or existing shin splints and help to prevent future flair ups.

• 1) Support Your Arches. Arch supports in every day shoes can help cushion and disperse stress on your shinbones, providing immediate relief for existing shin splints and added support and padding that help to prevent them.

• 2) Increase Flexibility in Your Calf Muscles. Your calves play a large role in the health of your shins. Any imbalance in strength often manifests itself in shin splints or a calf strain. By stretching your calves daily and increasing your calf flexibility you can dramatically reduce your risk of muscle imbalance injury.

• 3) Strengthen the Opposition. By adding strength training to your flexibility exercises you make progress towards completing the muscle balance. Toe raises and leg presses are a good place to start but a complete program that targets all four planes of ankle motion to work all of the supporting muscles.

Medically Proven Solutions

ProStretch Plus™

The #1 Choice of Professional Athletes, Physical Therapists & Athletic Trainers – ProStretch

ProStretch has been proven to provide a deep stretch that increases flexibility along the entire interconnective chain, delivering the long-term flexibility needed for a lasting heel pain solution.

StrengthRite™

Developed with the input of medical professionals, StrengthRite, with its unique design, delivers more than simple straps or bands. No other product on the market today enables you to strengthen the muscles that control all four motions this easily. And StrengthRite helps strengthen the muscles around the ankle, reducing the potential for shin splints, Achilles tendonitis, and plantar fasciitis.

CoreStretch®

Originally developed for use by physical therapists for clinical use.

The CoreStretch was developed to provide the deepest, most effective way to stretch your hamstrings and posterior chain while restoring muscle flexibility and interaction, thereby, increasing range of motion, reducing pain, preventing further injury, and speeding up recovery. The CoreStretch provides a stretch that both allows the tissues to relax and elongate developing the major muscle groups that make up the core.

Tuli's® Heel Cups

The World's #1 Selling Heel Cup. The biomechanically designed Tuli's Heel Cup provides immediate relief by cushioning the area of pain and elevating the calcaneous (heel bone) to take pressure off the shins, lessening the tension and allowing you to regain flexibility. Tuli's patented multi-cell, multi-layer "waffle" design absorbs shock and returns impact energy just like the system naturally found in your feet.

Tuli's Classic Heel Cups - Classic support for everyday use.

Tuli's Heavy Duty Heel – Maximum support for athletic shoes, lace up shoes, and work boots.

TuliGel Heel Cups – Soft gel supports heels in dress shoes.

Heavy Duty TuliGel Heel Cups – Maximum support in a soft gel.

NOTE: Consult your doctor before starting any exercise program. It's important to resume your usual activities gradually. If your shin isn't completely healed, returning to your usual activities too quickly may only cause continued pain.