Shin Health and Conditioning Reference

Mat Manual companion guide to "Shin Pain That Will Not Quit: Conditioning or Injury." Print the first two pages and keep them in your gym bag. The triage table is the whole point of the guide: learn its rows before you need them.

Name: ______________________________ Gym: ______________________________ Kru: ______________________________

Date started: ______________ Leg that complains, if any: ☐ Lead ☐ Rear ☐ Both ☐ Neither yet

The Medical Boundary, Printed First

• This reference teaches patterns. It does not diagnose. Only a clinician who examines your leg can name what you have.
• Any stop signal from the triage table below ends kicking on that leg until you have been assessed. No stage in this guide outranks the table.
• Sharp pain at one spot, pain at rest or at night, numbness or weakness in the foot, and pain that worsens week to week are assessment signals, not training problems.
• A leg with sudden severe pain after a hard blow, tight and swelling and not easing, is an emergency department visit the same day.
• Tell your kru when a shin is under a stop signal. A good kru changes your work. Hiding it to stay in the hard rounds is how a sore shin becomes a cracked one.