How To Use Shin Supports Video

Shin supports compress the lower leg to relieve shin splints and other minor pains. Learn how to use shin supports and stay fit in this sports medicine video.

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Treat shin splints &lower leg pain
Similar to knee sleeve
Watch out for tingling in toes
Try on in store

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Mike Vera is an athletic trainer the Roger Clemens Institute at Memorial Hermann Hospital. The Clemens Institute is the largest, most comprehensive medically based sports program in the Southwest.

MIKE VERA: With more people being physically active, they are going to tend to have a lot more injuries. One injury I want to specify today is a shin-splint type of injury or a lower-leg injury. There are several ways to manage it. Obviously, proper footwear, probably changing the surface that you run on. And there are some things that we recommend. One is very simple. It is just a shin support. It looks just like the knee sleeve we talked about earlier. It is neoprene. What it does, we can use our friend here to illustrate what it is. Usually when people suffer from a lower-leg injury, it's pain radiating right in between this area. And with proper management, like we talked about footwear and changing of the ground surface, ice, you can also use--the support would look just about in here, obviously, not with this patient, but it would work real well. You want to make sure that there are different sizes. This is a small. And when you slip it on, it is going to come up about halfway to the calf to try to provide compression support. Obviously, some precaution with this: check for tingling in the toes, temperature in the foot. You do not want it to be too tight. I would recommend trying this on at the store where you purchase them either at the sporting goods or a pharmacy. And it works as a good product.

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