30/09/2021
Suffering from shin splints? Try these little drills to help prevent your calves getting so tight which enhances shin pain.
1. Trigger point release on the arches of your feet. This area can get quite painful is often neglected in terms of receiving any massage or stretch in that area. This being tight can pull other muscles into tightness such as calves, hamstrings, even lower back. All our muscles are linked in some way or another. So let’s start from the bottom up. Standing on a hard object that fits into ur arch, apply pressure and pivot the foot in all directions plus stand still on it for 90 seconds either foot.
2. Ankle mobility drills, practise moving your limbs (in this case the foot) in all directions. Keep them mobile. Any mobility you don’t use you lose.
3. Some foam rolling on the calves can act as a self massage technique when you don’t have a bae or massage therapist on hand. There’s no studies that prove foam rolling has any permanent effect and it doesn’t “release” any muscles but touch can calm/relax muscles even if just for a temporary period.
Even though these temporary manipulations can assist for the session at hand some consistency can aid in lessened pain for the the time that you are consistent. Just like with diet and exercise nothing remains if you stop. A good day of eating can have you feeling good that day (unless you’re working with years of damage you will need a few days or weeks before you feel good) and feel s**tty again when you stop. A good session can have you feeling good that day and then you stop and feel not so good again. Where as a few months of consistency you can still reap the rewards of feeling good when having a few days off.
