SHIN SPLINTS that keep popping up every time you try to build your running? Here’s the honest truth from a physio who sees this weekly. Shin splints, or Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome (MTSS) if we’re being clinical, are almost always a load problem and sits on the bone stress continuum. Which means if you keep applying the same training stress that triggered it in the first place, it doesn’t magically resolve. It either hangs around in the background… or slowly gets worse. So rehab isn’t about wa