@SunsetRunner wrote:
I believe I worded it incorrectly, I do have shin splints the pain front of the leg. However, I was wondering if the numbing could also be contributed cause. I have been working on different strides during my walk to see which feels better. Oddly enough once the numbing kicks in and I stretch it out (sometime to stretch sessions) I am normlly good for the remaining miles.
Thank you for your response it gives me something to speak to my doc about.
I general do not cross my ankle over my knee unless doing a yoga pose (that is not comfortable for office)
Hammie glutes not tight during walk try to keep myself loose
Yes if sitting on the floor i can touch my toes
Ok - so a mix of things going on - but shin splints is just the pain in the front.
If just walking a reason for them many times is how you land on your heel and how your shoes help or hurt. Some shoes have a very wider bottom tread that slants up to heel cup, and that includes off the back too, not just sideways.
When you use those muscles on shin to hold front of foot up they are under contraction of course.
If you hit the ground right (bad actually) with heel and your weight forces fore foot down fast lengthening the muscle while it's under tension (usually the foot will slap ground or close to it) - that's called eccentric contraction and causes the most damage to the muscle.
In weight lifting that's desired, as that's what causes the body to repair stronger and perhaps with more muscle. But that's for maybe 3 sets of say 15 reps, right.
Heavy body weight for 5000 steps is another matter. Hence once you've got it - how long you must wait to repair and get over it.
And if you've cause some pulling of the muscle away from the attachment at the bone (mainly upper pain), really bad. If running you could get the other reason of tiny fractures - but you are walking, and fractures isn't always the reason, nor the main reason for majority of people.
So examine your stride - if you take long ones, really landing on heel far out front, you are likely causing the above. Take shorter steps more frequently, this usually causes landing mid-foot automatically.
But wait until healed up - which requires time - forget ice at this point, you need blood flow to area to aid healing. Ice is right after the trauma to aid in swelling not so bad. If still swelling - that's body trying to heal - let it.
The ankle on knee stretch is for testing the glutes (just like hammy stretch) for tightness or to stretch - which some have a sciatica that goes through the piriformis muscle and if glute is tight, that usually is too - and a possible reason for sciatica issue causing numbing down leg. Which doesn't sound like your issue, but could be related.
Also allows seeing if both sides are equally tight, or lose, as the case may be.
What you might do is slow warmup walk - while doing that stretch achilles/calf with bent knee walking slowly until you feel no tightness, after doing that frequently during a 5 min warmup walk - calves may be lose enough.
Now, that stretch walk only stretches the soleus calf muscle, not the gastroc, which needs the straight leg heel off curb method to stretch.
Here's what you may do after the walk to help make sure you are ready for the next time, again after a 5 min cooldown pace.
http://drsunderman.com/soleus-muscle-stretch/
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