There is almost no man that did not encountered this. In fact, a recent European study estimates that absences from work due to back pain cost around 190 billion pounds a year. Not to mention the effect on spending free time and normal daily life.
For a body to be a perfect tool that can be used at maximum capacity for performance, one basic condition is the biomechanical balance of the whole body.
Postural and biomechanical asymmetries create problems for everyone, but especially for athletes, who by the nature of the sport they practice are subjected to a particular biomechanical stress and risks of accident.
The term “shin splints” refers to pain along the shin bone (tibia) — the large bone in the front of your lower leg.
Shin splints, the catch-all term for lower leg pain that occurs below the knee either on the front outside part of the leg (anterior shin splints) or the inside of the leg (medial shin splints), are the bane of many athletes, runners, tennis players, even dancers.