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	I posted earlier this week about shin splints, and how mine seem to
occur at the indoor 200m track here at the U of I, but nowhere else.  I have
formulated a hypothesis about this, and I would appreciate any input as to
correctness/incorrectness of my suppositions.

	1)  As I understand it, shin splints results because the calf muscle is
stronger than the muscles on the front of the leg; therefore exercises to
strengthen the muscles on the shin will help to prevent people who are
prone to shin splints.

	2)  On misc.fitness today, someone posted that one such exercise is to
tap your foot 100 times with your foot pointing three different postions a)
inward b) straight out, and (c) outward.  He claimed it worked wonders on his
wife's shin splints.  I tried this, and really felt a burn in my shins.

	3)  Based on my experience with the exercise suggested above, and the
fact that I have only felt this pain ice skating and after a hard day skiin, I
thought that this exercise strenghthens the muscle on the shin (in my case,
fatigued the muscle on the shin) because it isolates the muscle and gives it a
good workout.

	4)  From the logic of the above three observations, I concluded that
the reason I get shin splints on the indoor track at the U of I Armory is
because I am repetitively doing a motion/exercise that isolates the
weakness in my shin (Running on a flat surface).  The reason I only get shin
splints or soreness on the Armory track is that other places I run (Either
outside or on a suspended, banked track) is becuase in the case of being
outside and on the banked track, I am not constantly isolating my shin.
Instead, the motion of my foot as I travel across different terrains helps not
to isolate my shin.  Also the suspended track has superior cushioning.

	Is my logic correct or am I just blowing steam.  Any input is
aprreciated.

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|      o        	Magdi N. Azer
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