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Hey, I'm not a physio but I managed to get back into running after suffering bad shin splints on multiple attempts with a few basic home exercises and a small, mostly temporary, change to my running form. I don't think this was the exact article, but most of the exercises I was doing match the ones in this article. I did a whole bunch after every run, before I had cooked down fully.

And while running, I tried to run with a higher cadence than normal. My normal cadence is probably somewhere around the high 160s, but I did my best to keep it well over 170. I think I probably slipped back down to my normal cadence as the run went on, but at least having it in mind as much as possible, especially at the start of any run as I was warming up, helped reduce the impact force through the legs. At least, that's why I think it helped.

Some new big cushioned shoes (I started using Asics Novablast around this time for training) also may have helped, but I don't think the timeline quite matches there. I can't remember for sure.