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Title: Re: [RC]   shin splints

[Mmmmmf.  Agggggh. Trying not to LOL at the picture you just described.  I feel your pain.]

Yes, bracing, especially on the balls of the feet (high resistance plantar-flexion) in stirrups, would for sure cause shin splints! They just didn’t have “horsey race brain” on the list of biomechanical factors in my Sports Medicine fellowship.

Beverley


On 3/8/08 7:23 PM, "Dolly Miller" <poquito@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >  
> > The treatment for shin splints is rest, ice, cross training and =
> > addressing
> > the biomechanical causes. (Straddling a round horse w/ short legs would =
> > not
> > be causative by my definition. And it's hard to imagine high enough =
> > impact
> > in the stirrups from posting unless one's feet were actually lifting out =
> > of,
> > and then smacking, the stirrups w/ each stride or unless one had too =
> > much
> > weight in the stirrups, not using the thrust/rhythm of the horse for ="">
> > lift.)
> >
> > Beverley
> >
> >   
> Yes, you can get shin splints or that's what I call them from riding. When your horse looses his brain right out of camp and he decides that he is going to catch everyone that he can see for miles at a gallop ( trot gear broke) and you're bracing with your feet cause you have his chin against his chest, then he throws his head up then down and side to side with some bucks thrown in for 10 miles. Yep, you get them.
> Shins burn like fire, then turn red with heat and swollen, then blue the next day.  Ouch!   Found his brain after the first VC
> Dolly