Former English soccer star Gary Mabbutt said Monday he was forced to end his South Africa trip early after a rat ate his foot and chewed his big toe “down to the bone” while he was sleeping.

She says shin splints are also more commonly seen in females, in part because females don't have as much muscle mass to sustain breakdown of the tissue and tendons around the shin bone.

Having shin splints diagnosed is important, Lambson says, because "untreated shin splints can eventually lead to a stress fracture where the bone breaks and it may need surgery for complete healing." ...

Shin splints are when you have pain anywhere along your shin bone or tibia. Your tibia is the big bone that starts under your knee and runs down the front of your lower leg. The pain happens where ...

The term shin splints describes pain felt along the inner edge of your shin bone. This pain concentrates in the lower leg between the knee and ankle. Shin splints often occur in people engaging in ...