Lower Leg and Shin Complaints

Your lower legs carry you forward. Every step you take is borne by them — they are the link between the foundation of your feet and the strength of your thighs. The shinbone is the hardest, most exposed bone in your body. It lies directly beneath the skin, unprotected, without any muscular cushion. When you knock yourself, you almost always hit the shin. It is the part of you that is most vulnerable and at the same time must be most stable.

Medically, lower leg and shin complaints can be many things: periostitis, medial tibial stress syndrome, stress fractures, chronic pain, swellings, hardening. Conventional medicine looks at overuse, incorrect loading, malalignment. All of that has its validity. But the deeper question remains: why precisely here? Why in the area that is responsible for your moving forward, your agility, your footing in the world?