stress fractures

If you're starting a new sport, changing activity, or rapidly increasing the amount of exercise that you normally do, pressure can start to build up in the muscle compartments around the shin, resulting in shin pain. Shin splints and stress fractures are two of the most common sources of pain in this part of the body. Both are overuse injuries, but stress fractures are the more severe of the two injuries. So, how do you know which one you have and how you should treat it? Shin splints refer to microtears in the bone and muscle tissue along the shinbone…