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Glossary for Shin splints

  • Circulation symptoms: Symptoms affecting the circulatory system
  • Compartment Syndrome: Excessive bleeding or swelling following surgery or injury can result in increased pressure within a section of the arms, legs or buttocks. The increased pressure affects blood flow and can result in tissue death necessitating amputation, nerve damage or muscle damage. The condition can be chronic or acute which is a medical emergency.
  • Exercise: The use of the human muscles to improve ones health
  • Ischemia: Inadequate blood supply to tissues, usually caused by a problem in the blood vessel.
  • Periostitis: Inflammation of the periosteum (outside layer) of the bone.
  • Shin pain: A feeling of distress and agony caused by the stimulation of pain nerve endings in the underarm.
  • Tendinitis: Inflammation of a tendon.


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