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Shin pain can effect anyone, but is more common for runners, athletes, dancers, hikers, and particularly those with poor hip, knee, and foot mechanics.
It’s essential for individuals experiencing shin pain to first identify the root cause or source of the pain in their body. Most traditional treatments fail to address the root cause, and shin pain can quickly become severe and chronic.
One of the most common causes of neck pain is repetitive stress of the neck muscles, tendons, and ligaments within these structures. Individuals who spend most of their day sitting at work, or doing sedentary activities, have a high-risk factor for developing this condition. The risk for developing neck pain is highest for those who sit in poor posture, with the head in a flexed forward position.
Several other causes of neck pain are also posture related, such as herniated discs, whiplash injuries, and Osteoarthritis (developing from the wear and tear of cartilage and bones). Poor posture puts your cervical spine, disks, and muscles in the neck at risk of injury and damage.
Remedies for shin pain are often limited and provide only short-term relief. Fortunately, there is another proven method that focuses on the root cause of pain, resulting in lasting relief for both acute and chronic shin pain.
Ice, heat, and pain relief creams are topical remedies that might feel good when applied but usually wear off in a very short amount of time.
Steroid shots and surgeries are isolated to the location of the pain are unsuccessful when the root cause is elsewhere in the body.
General stretching and massage only provide short-term relief since their focus is on the site of the pain and not the root cause.
Over-the-counter and prescription meds only mask the pain temporarily, which often results in symptoms getting worse over time.
Ice, heat, electric stimulation, and other therapies applied only to the shin are often ineffective because the root cause of the pain is usually stemming from an imbalance, muscle weakness, or crookedness elsewhere. Muscle tightness, tendonitis, or repetitive stress of the shin itself is only part of the problem that needs to be addressed. When you have shin pain in particular, it’s important to look for deeper issues or imbalances higher up in the body.
If the natural sitting or standing alignment of the head, shoulders, spine, pelvis, knees, and feet are not balanced and level, then the muscles along the shin no longer work properly. Often, upper spinal flexion caused from sitting at a desk all day will change the pelvic and femur positioning in such a way that the shin muscles are overworked during walking and standing. This will cause chronic shin pain.
For treatment of shin pain to be truly effective, it must focus on correcting your posture and straightening the joints from head to toe. The therapy program needs to be personalized to your specific posture imbalances. Posture Therapy is the only method that provides a personalized whole-body posture correction and pain relief program.
Fortunately, there is a new app available from PTX Therapy. It is the first personal Posture Therapy app with a posture analyzer that can review your posture, consider your personal pains, history, and movement ability, and create a customized program from millions of possibilities. You’ll learn about your posture, then get a unique-to-you program so you can go from crooked to straight, and from pain-ful to pain-free.
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