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What are shin splints?
Shin splints is the colloquial name given to pain that is experienced in the lower shinbone (tibia), more commonly in the front of the leg than at the back or the sides.

The name arose from joggers and runners who commonly describe the pain as though the shinbone were “splintering” during exercise.

The leg muscles attached to the shinbone become inflamed and injured at the attachment. Shin splints are therefore not a condition of the bone.

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