shin splints
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- noun
- /ʃɪn splɪnts/
- Specialized
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periostitis
- Tibial periostitis (shin splints) kept me even from walking distances.
- injuries such as shin splints
- shin splints pain
- get shin splints
God knows I was feeling tight muscles and, and pain and, and I was feeling, you know, I was even hurt shin splints.
- God knows I was feeling tight muscles and, and pain and, and I was feeling, you know, I was even hurt shin splints.
Examples
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My shin splints are unbearable at times.
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I've got shin splints.
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I had strained hamstrings, shin splints, and blisters the size of half dollars on my heels.
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Some injuries being treated were tendonitis, soft tissue contusions, ankle inversion, sprains, knee ligament sprains, and shin splints.
Academic text (1994) -
After running for a few miles, I felt a sharp pain in my legs and realized I had developed shin splints.
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Many athletes experience shin splints due to the repetitive stress of running on hard surfaces.
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To avoid shin splints, it's important to stretch before and after exercising.
Antonyms
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
shin + splints
The compound clearly points to the shin (front of the lower leg) and the word 'splints', so a learner who knows both constituents will guess it concerns a medical problem of the shin. However, the actual sense—pain and inflammation along the shin from exercise—is a specific medical/idiomatic meaning rather than a literal use of splints, so the relation is only partially predictable without exposure.
Etymology
Shin splints may come from old wooden 'splints', thin pieces of wood used to support a broken leg, which gives the image of a sharp pain along the shin. So the phrase now means 'pain in the front of the lower leg', often after running.