A number of studies have looked at risk factors for medial tibial stress syndrome. I have blogged about a couple of recent ones here and here. When there are enough prospective studies on a topic, there is time for a meta-analysis and systematic review to pool all that data. Here is a new one on […]
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Proximal Control and the Risk for Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome
Just days after I lament that a recent case control study did not include factors that there is increased interest in when it comes to medial tibial stress syndrome and also noting that prospective studies provide a more powerful conclusion than a case control study, we have a prospective study which included the factors that […]
Risk factors for medial tibial stress syndrome
Determining the risk factors for any particular injury is important as some are modifiable and addressing these can be used to lower the risk for injury. The best way of doing this is to take a group of runners with no current injury, measure a whole lot of things in them and then prospectively follow […]
Shoe Wedging or Gait Retraining for Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome?
Medial tibial stress syndrome is the more common condition that gets lumped under that way overused, meaningless and stupid term, ‘shin splints‘. There is somewhat of a muddled picture as to exactly what medial tibial stress syndrome really is (ie bone stress injury, periostitis, muscle insertion problem, etc or a combination of some those). There […]