Treatment of Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome: A Critical Review

Electronic databases (MEDLINE, CENTRAL, EMBASE, CINAHL, PEDro and SPORTDiscus) and trial registries were searched utilizing the search terms: “medial tibial stress syndrome”; “tibial stress syndrome”; medial tibial syndrome”; “shin splints syndrome”; “shin splint”; “shin splints”; “shin soreness.” The search strategy the authors used for MEDLINE was: “Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome”[Mesh] OR Tibial Stress Syndrome*[tiab] OR shin splint*[tiab] OR shin soreness* [tiab] OR tibial Stress injury* [tiab] OR shinsplint* [tiab] OR shin splint syndrome* [tiab] OR medial tibial syndrome* [tiab]. Dates were searched from the article’s inception to June 1, 2012. Gray literature was searched for additional relevant reports.