Shin splints are common in athletes—but persistent pain can signal something more serious. Athletic trainer Travis Nolan explains how untreated shin splints can progress into stress fractures, what ...

Shin splints are when you have pain anywhere along your shin bone or tibia. Your tibia is the big bone that starts under your knee and runs down the front of your lower leg. The pain happens where ...

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott was transported to a local hospital for surgery after suffering a compound fracture and dislocation of his right ankle during Sunday’s game against the New York ...

Most people fully recover from shin splints and avoid developing stress fractures. Stress fractures take longer to heal and may require a brace, a walking boot, and crutches. Shin splints and stress ...

How Do I Know If I Have a Bone Fracture? Doctors can usually recognize most fractures by examining the injury and taking X-rays. Sometimes an X-ray will not show a fracture. This is especially common ...

An important patient care skill is the ability to rapidly immobilize a suspected lower extremity fracture. Many lower extremity fractures are particularly emergent, both due to the forces involved in ...

Shin splints aren’t hard to get. Faulty posture, poor shoes, fallen arches, insufficient warmups, poor running mechanics, poor walking mechanics, and overtraining can lead to the telltale shin pain.

Also known as medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS), shin splints is the catch-all term for lower leg pain that occurs below your knee, either on the front outer part of your leg (anterior shin splints ...

Treating children’s distal radius or ulna fractures using removable splints is as effective as short arm casting, but allows better physical function without increased pain, according to a study by ...