Hi All,
I've shared the below on someone else's thread, but figured I would make my own. Please see me bone scan results below. All images are same, however the lighting and sensitivity settings have been adjusted to help show the injury areas.
I began running in August of 2019 and wound up injured the beginning March of 2020. I would consider my injury to be medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS), defined as diffuse pain along the posterior edge of both tibias (i.e. pain felt along the inside of both shins, just a few centimeters above the ankle). I drastically increased my weekly kilometers in January where I would run a half marathon on a treadmill every weekend or every other weekend. I ended up getting pain in one shin in the area I mentioned above at the end of February, took three weeks off, returned to running and decided to run through the pain as it hasn't healed and then the other shin hurt as well. The pain progressed until middle of June where I decided to quit running altogether to let myself actually heal. between June 1 and Aug 25, I ran short test runs to assess healing progress, for over 40km total. August 25th was my final run before strictly no running until my nuclear bone scan on Nov 9th. The radiologist confirmed that there were no stress fractures and that the imaging pointed toward shin splints. I've attached multiple images of my bone scan results, so please feel free to comment. The last few months I've been supplementing with Calcium and D3. I've been biking since April without pain and have incorporated lower leg workouts and hip work.
The below images were taken Nov 9th, 2020, whereas my shins were at their absolute worst June 25th, 2020. So it is important to note that 4 months of various levels of rest have gone by. I'm sure my bone scan results would have been significantly worse if taken in July, 2020.
Any advice, comments, interpretations or concerns surrounding my results would be appreciated. I went for a 2k run last night and had little to no pain. I am thinking that as long as the "breaking down" of my bones as a result of running does not exceed the rate at which they are rebuilding/healing, then I should be fine. (Note the arrows in the images are metal clips the nurse put on me, please ignore)
Thanks!
Currjam
I've shared the below on someone else's thread, but figured I would make my own. Please see me bone scan results below. All images are same, however the lighting and sensitivity settings have been adjusted to help show the injury areas.
I began running in August of 2019 and wound up injured the beginning March of 2020. I would consider my injury to be medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS), defined as diffuse pain along the posterior edge of both tibias (i.e. pain felt along the inside of both shins, just a few centimeters above the ankle). I drastically increased my weekly kilometers in January where I would run a half marathon on a treadmill every weekend or every other weekend. I ended up getting pain in one shin in the area I mentioned above at the end of February, took three weeks off, returned to running and decided to run through the pain as it hasn't healed and then the other shin hurt as well. The pain progressed until middle of June where I decided to quit running altogether to let myself actually heal. between June 1 and Aug 25, I ran short test runs to assess healing progress, for over 40km total. August 25th was my final run before strictly no running until my nuclear bone scan on Nov 9th. The radiologist confirmed that there were no stress fractures and that the imaging pointed toward shin splints. I've attached multiple images of my bone scan results, so please feel free to comment. The last few months I've been supplementing with Calcium and D3. I've been biking since April without pain and have incorporated lower leg workouts and hip work.
The below images were taken Nov 9th, 2020, whereas my shins were at their absolute worst June 25th, 2020. So it is important to note that 4 months of various levels of rest have gone by. I'm sure my bone scan results would have been significantly worse if taken in July, 2020.
Any advice, comments, interpretations or concerns surrounding my results would be appreciated. I went for a 2k run last night and had little to no pain. I am thinking that as long as the "breaking down" of my bones as a result of running does not exceed the rate at which they are rebuilding/healing, then I should be fine. (Note the arrows in the images are metal clips the nurse put on me, please ignore)
Thanks!
Currjam