Shin splints

[pinkychique]

This is what I've been told too:
1.Stretch your calves!!!! I keep getting yelled at to do this, and when I remember to it really makes a HUGE difference!
2. Wearing birkenstocks makes everything amazingly better...this little tip was told to me by a doctor that I know.
3. Get a tennis ball or something similar, and put your leg up on a table on top of the ball, and use it to work out the knots, all the knots and tightness in your lower legs are related, so working out other ones should help the shin splints.
Good luck!

On the IT: (I have it too) do 1/4 squats (one legged tiny squats) to even out the strength on your legs, and stretch your hips and do a stretch like Revolved Triangle, and use a frozen big water bottle to massage out the IT by putting it on the ground and rolling over it (it really hurts but it does the trick!!).