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If you love to run or taking part in organized sports, you’re at risk for shin splints, pain in the knees, Achilles tendonitis, and other lower extremity injuries. Medial tibial stress syndrome, as it is referred to by the Mayo Clinic, is a pain that runs down the length of the shin bone and is caused by undue stress on the bones, muscles, and ligaments of the lower extremeties.