tibial

We have Barton Gellman defending Snowden by saying that he was diagnosed with 'bilateral tibial stress fractures'.

But tibial stress fractures are a form --- a common form --- of shin splint.

There are some common training injuries (illial tibial band syndrome, shin splints, etc, etc).

I have posterior tibial tendonitis, and will never run (or walk without pain for more than 10 minutes) again.

Were tibial stress fractures what anyone conjured up from that description?

I broke my leg a few weeks ago, tibial plateau fracture due to skateboarding if you want the details, but I have been laid up.

I remember videoing my foot as I have a relatively prominent posterior tibial pulse, which in good light I can actually make out visually (but not in the video I took, as intended).

I've had some issues with my knee where the ilio-tibial band connects on the outside, but some stretches for that muscle have alleviated that issue, and my main limitation has been the blisters.

We are rapidly approaching a point where I am going to start reading reports on parachutists managing tibial stress fractures and I'd be happier if we didn't get all the way to that point.

But nor are bilateral tibial stress fractures something you get in a training accident or other single event -- it's a repetitive injury that you get when your body cannot sustain the level of demand being placed on it over time.

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Tibial stress fractures are (among the more severe and longer-healing) manifestations of medial tibial stress syndrome ("shin splints").

Gellman objects, saying he has a documented diagnosis for Snowden saying he was discharged with "bilaterial tibial stress fractures".

The first line treatment for bilateral tibial stress fractures is "stop working out for 4-12 weeks".

A lot of people who have "shin splints" have, in fact, tibial stress fractures.

Tibial stress fractures are a cause of shin splints.