Why this exercise for shin splints?🤔When dealing with shin splints, often we think about stretching and then strengthening our calf muscles. This is very important for most, but we also need to think about strengthening the front of our shins and working on our ankle dorsiflexion at the same time. If tightness through our calf muscles are leading to increased ankle plantarflexion and decreased ankle dorsiflexion, this will change how forces are absorbed through the lower extremity with running