Arrrrggg!
I have been on my clinicals for CNA for 4 days now, and have gotten shin splints from walking the unforgiving hardwood floor on the hospital ward! (beautiful, but not feet and leg friendly)
It is my left leg, and it hurts like the dickens. Swollen a bit, and painful to touch. I have it wrapped 24/7
I have been doing RICE when I come home, with some Ibuprofen thrown in, but aside form completly staying off it, which I can't do, any suggestions to help this?
ETA: RICE is rest, ice, compression and elevation.
Should I be doing heat now that it is days into this?
I don't want to ask the nurses, I dont want to be the injured one, like a wounded gazell, they will pick me out of the herd, lol. (we are a group of 8 who for the first time ever have been allowed onto the cardiac ward)
I have been on my clinicals for CNA for 4 days now, and have gotten shin splints from walking the unforgiving hardwood floor on the hospital ward! (beautiful, but not feet and leg friendly)
It is my left leg, and it hurts like the dickens. Swollen a bit, and painful to touch. I have it wrapped 24/7
I have been doing RICE when I come home, with some Ibuprofen thrown in, but aside form completly staying off it, which I can't do, any suggestions to help this?
ETA: RICE is rest, ice, compression and elevation.
Should I be doing heat now that it is days into this?
I don't want to ask the nurses, I dont want to be the injured one, like a wounded gazell, they will pick me out of the herd, lol. (we are a group of 8 who for the first time ever have been allowed onto the cardiac ward)