Shin bone bruising? Boots? Help?
If I go out charging hard for a day blasting through crud and doing some hucking I get massive shin bone pain. None of the tissue hurts. It is the bone only from slamming into my boot. The area that is worse is basically from the bottom of my bottom buckle on the shin up to the bottom of the top buckle. The pain on a 1-10 scale gets up there to about a 9 when I hit a chunk of crud or any change in snow density while mashed against the fronts of my boots. It makes skiiing impossible. I have to literally sideslide of the hill once it gets going full tilt.OUCH!!
I have done many things to try to rememdy this. I have surefoot liners in my Salomon X-wave 9's with booster straps. From there I have cut out the plastic on the tongues where my shin bone lines up at and put extra padding in the cut out area. Also with the help of craig at mso in silverthorne we made some shinguards out of insoles by heating them up and placing them over my shins. I took extra precaution by putting in some harder foam padding on the inside of the guard with a notch cut out for my shin bone. The guard is then placed outside the sock right on the shin. The fit is pretty goood and the comfort is quite impressive. After all of this I still cannot last more than a day and a half (about a day longer than before the guards)before the pain gets to the point where I need to shut it down for about 7 days before we start the process all over again.
I have been to a doctor and she didn't think it was a stress fracture (both legs are the same)more an equipment problem combined with my skinny ankles. I can take my hand and wrap them around my ankle and touch my fingers. Does anybody else have such scrawny chicken legs? Has anybody else had this problem and made a boot switch and it cured the problem? What are my options? This has caused me to miss way too many days for the last 2 years. I have talked to hundreds of ski tech guys and none of them have seen a case as bad as mind. Opinions, taunts anything is welcome for I am at a dead end and have no idea what to do. Thanks.
....re-stuffing of the liner's cuff area?
Right-On the mark guys....same scenario here vailcat...had my first ~2week layoff due to the inside corner bruise a month ago...talk about cabin-angst! H-wood, I haven't tried it YET, but I'm pondering the strategy of trying to fill in, as much as possible, one's liner cuff portion. Maybe trying to insert a middle-ground material of medium-density (high-density foam or rubber) between the cuff's shell and the liner's foam(which could also be hyper-stuffed as well)...? I guess one of the main issues would be to preserve/develop comfortable/compatible angles in that middle-ground material...epoxying it onto the shell?(maybe) *More or less functioning somwhat like an orthotic(of a different kind).
Random rambling I know....
steve
