shin splints

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   painful inflammation of the muscles around the shins; frequent among runners

   Broaderinflammation

Questions about shin splints

What does shin splints mean?

shin splints means "painful inflammation of the muscles around the shins; frequent among runners".

Is shin splints a common word?

shin splints is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.