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    Shin Splints pre-Camino

    Be careful - I walked through shin splints for the last 150 miles of the Portuguese last December and returned home with a significant oblique stress fracture of the right tibia and developing stress fracture in my left tibia and spent 1.5 months in a wheelchair and an additional 4 months on...
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    Knee problem: advice por favor!!

    Severe sprain. We initially spent two rest days in Logroño and then as it got worse we went to a doctor and spent six rest days in Santo Domingo. Including the rest time we started in SJPP on May 6 and arrived in Santiago on June 26 (52 days). We also took 3 other rest days as a part of...
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    Knee problem: advice por favor!!

    From our experience last year - go to a clinic/doctor to make sure that you don't have a major problem that will be worsened by walking (you probably don't have a big problem, but you'll feel better knowing that you don't) - take 3-5 days off from walking - use the meds the doctor recommends -...
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    I have a problem

    It's easy to send your bag forward and many people do. After a knee injury my wife sent her bag forward every day and no one commented or complained. The nice thing is that you don't need to plan ahead, you can easily decide the afternoon before whether to send your bag ahead. So enjoy!

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