{ "item_title" : "Shin Splints Solved", "item_author" : [" Abdan S. K. N. "], "item_description" : "Shin splints are not a diagnosis, and rest is not a treatment.If you have been told to take a few weeks off, iced your shin, bought new shoes, and then watched the same pain return three weeks into your comeback, you were treating a symptom. The problem is load, and load can be solved.Shin Splints Solved is a complete, criterion-based protocol for medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS): from the first week of pain through to full training, and through the year that follows.Get the diagnosis right, then find your driversWhat MTSS is and what it is not, and why the term names a location and a pattern of pain rather than one injured tissue.How to tell MTSS apart from a tibial stress fracture, chronic exertional compartment syndrome and other causes of shin pain.Red flags: the signs that mean stop self-managing and get assessed.Your drivers instead of generic advice: load error, biomechanics, bone health and energy availability, footwear history, and training context.Run the protocolPhase Zero. Calm the tissue without losing fitness: activity modification, a cross-training menu, what the modalities are worth, the walking-boot question, and isometric loading for pain relief.Phase One. Rebuild the two priority muscles, tibialis posterior and soleus, across four loading stages from isometrics to plyometrics, plus hip and trunk control.Five gated return-to-running stages. Walk-jog intervals to continuous running to hills, tempo and speed, each with explicit pain rules and exit criteria, so you progress on evidence from your own body rather than on a calendar.Load management for the long run. The volume, intensity and frequency dials, four-week cycles with cutback weeks, and an honest account of what the acute: chronic workload ratio can and cannot tell you.Durability. Footwear and rotation, gait retraining, surfaces, maintenance strength, the amber-flag protocol, and a twelve-month plan to prevent the next episode.Use the toolkitPrintable templates and logs: daily pain log, return-to-running schedules, weekly load sheet, field-test scoring, injury-profile one-pager.A full exercise library with common errors, regressions and progressions.Quick-reference decision trees, a glossary, an eight-week sample schedule and a sixteen-week post-MTSS training plan.References grouped by topic, with a table that maps the book's key numbers back to the study each one came from.Who it is for. Runners from 5K to marathon and ultramarathon dealing with MTSS, or relapsing after it, plus the coaches, strength coaches and clinicians who manage them and want a criterion-based framework instead of another list of generic exercises.Where the evidence is thin, such as return-to-running timelines, cadence targets, shoe rotation and progression rates, the book says so plainly rather than dressing consensus up as proof. It is educational and does not replace individual medical assessment, diagnosis or treatment.113,000 words. 364 pages. Every claim you can check, you can trace.You do not need more rest. You need a protocol.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/817/823/9798178230534_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "19.99", "online_price" : "19.99", "our_price" : "19.99", "club_price" : "19.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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