Another gripe for Goat about leg pains

[vaultinggoat16]

This started before I really started hopping agian this year started when I threw an outer spike in a 100m sprint it has just gotten worse....I think I just need rest but hard to get, by the way DSMO is not an uncommon backwoods hick coaching manuever for severly injured footballers here (not meant offensivly to you I mean backwoods hick because I have seen coaches use it on atheletes with severe tears just to win a game because they dont like the other coach.)

[Bonevt]

There are streches that you can do to help relieve the pressure on the muscles. They involve pointing your toes out as hard as you can and holding, bringing your toes in twords your chest and holdingas far as u can, and also do the last one but have someone put resistence on your toes when u try and pull them inward. You should do these a couple of times a day along with iceing and Advil. Talk some water and put it in a solo cup then freeze it, then take it out and take the block of ice and massage your shins. Its better then bags of ice.

[distancejumper]

before practice we have to spell the alphabet with our feet to help with that

[vaulter0512]

This started before I really started hopping agian this year started when I threw an outer spike in a 100m sprint it has just gotten worse....I think I just need rest but hard to get, by the way DSMO is not an uncommon backwoods hick coaching manuever for severly injured footballers here (not meant offensivly to you I mean backwoods hick because I have seen coaches use it on atheletes with severe tears just to win a game because they dont like the other coach.)

Yeah that's how i found out about it lol..i rolled my ankle in the hurldes at regionals last year and some old coach dude walked up and put that on it and taped it..because i still had to run the hurdles again for finals..long jump for prelims and finals..and vault...and run our relay! it worked..lol so then i waslike ummm why not the shins lol but i dont use it that often! The shin streches i swear dont work for me i do them everyday but oh well...advil works great! lol I've never did the cup in the ice thing just "ice baths" but im going to try it!!!!

[souleman]

Bonevt, your toe point and retract excercise is also what is recommended for not being able to get to sleep. You do the same thing while you're lying in bed, (you don't need the person pushing back part of it). Believe it or not when you stop your legs (and pretty much the rest of you) is ready to fall off asleep. It really works. Later..........Mike

[ashcraftpv]

you need to be very careful when using DMSO, as it will absorb directly into your skin and take anything that is on the skin with it! We used to crush ibuprofen, put it on the hurt area, then roll some DMSO on top of it. Make sure you wash the area before you apply it.

http://www.dmso.org/subLevels/what.htm

[vaultinggoat16]

Grr finally back...I got hijacked and my MBR changed took 56 tries to get a solid boot to recover and modify it....I took 2 days off and did a decent bleacher work out today and it felt great after my 4 day hiatus I will be ready to go agian ) finally......btw Im a pole vaulter not that alphabet stretch will not keep my attention long enough..plus there are like over 10 letters what if I get lost?

[Robert schmitt]

What do you mean by decellerating take off? b/c i have shin splints horrible in my left leg..have insole ice etc...One thing that i have found that has worked is DSMO you buy at like a ACE hardware store its for horses and says its not for human use but i've been using for like the 2nd year now and it compeltely nums it! lol and it doesn't do anything werid to you or anything ..and there is no pain. but lately there has been alot like i couldn't jump yesterday b/c of it!!!! it's the lower part of the shin too not anywhere else! it hurts to even touch it lol. but oh well charge to the game i guess!

I feel everyones pain from this.....litterally! I tried everything under the sun. orthotics, abc's toe exercises, stretching, icing, new shoes, I would go through a 1000 count bottle of ibuprofin in a season easily. They were so bad in college I got stress fractures my first three years in my take off leg from having a crappy take off. As my take off got better so did my shin!!! If you are slowing down at all at your takeoff it's decellerating. If someone listens to your takeoff foot hit the gound and it's louder than the rest of thr steps in the run you were decellerating. That pounding from the heal strike will destroy the medial boarder of the tibia. Also if your take off is under you may not be decellerating but it will have the same effect on your shin.

Improve you take off and as a great side effect you'll improve your shins and your vaulting