How long you been walking now? Few weeks/days? Pain go away with walking or get worse as you go/warm up? How old are your shoes type of shoes? Would you consider your feet flat or high arch?
MTSS/shin splints can be caused by a laundry list of things but with the correct gradual build up of exercise is should not be an issue for long. The biggest factor from the recent research I have read and some anecdotal info…. It is the to much to quickly that leads to it 90% of the time. Depending on some of your above answers as you lose weight and gradually stress the bones it will go away.
“Duck hunting gives a man a chance to see the loneliest places …blinds washed by a rolling surf, blue and gold autumn marshes, …a rice field in the rain, flooded pin-oak forests or any remote river delta. In duck hunting the scene is as important as the shooting.” ~ Erwin Bauer, The Duck Hunter’s Bible, 1965
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