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Ace Sports Clinic Malvern offers personalised shin splint treatment, physiotherapy, and rehabilitation programs designed to help you recover with confidence.
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- Improve your strength and flexibility
- Restore movement after injury
- Move freely without pain
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- Enhance your quality of life
QUALIFICATIONS:
Every practitioner at Ace Sports Clinic Malvern is university-trained and experienced in diagnosing, treating, and rehabilitating shin splints. Whether your pain is caused by overuse, training errors, or reduced tissue capacity, you’re in expert hands with our shin splint physiotherapists.
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Targeted Shin Splint Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation
Shin splints—clinically known as medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS)—occur when the muscles, tendons, and bone tissue around the shin become overloaded. They often develop from sudden increases in training volume, hard running surfaces, poor footwear, or biomechanical factors such as flat feet or stiff calves.
Our comprehensive physiotherapy for shin splints is designed to reduce pain and support long-term recovery. Your personalised plan may include:
- Clinical assessments to determine the severity of tissue irritation
- Manual therapy and soft tissue techniques to reduce tension in the calf muscles
- Load management strategies to balance recovery and training needs
- Swelling and pain management using ice, gentle mobilisation, and activity modification
- Neuromuscular retraining for improved foot and ankle stability
- Progressive strengthening of key muscle groups, including calves, intrinsic foot muscles, and hips
- Targeted exercise for shin splints, including flexibility work, controlled loading, and graded return-to-running programs
- Education on footwear selection, surface changes, and training progression to prevent recurrence
- Collaboration with our multidisciplinary healthcare team, including physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, and osteopaths, for complete care
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Common Symptoms of Shin Splints
Shin splints can cause:
- Pain along the inner or front edge of the shin
- Tenderness when touching the affected area
- Stiffness or aching at the start or end of exercise
- Symptoms that initially improve with warm-up but return with ongoing activity
- Mild swelling around the lower leg
- Discomfort when running, jumping, or walking uphill
Types of Shin Splints We Treat
At Ace Sports Clinic Malvern, we treat all types of shin splints, including:
- Medial tibial stress syndrome caused by overload of the tibial periosteum
- Shin pain associated with improper biomechanics, such as over-pronation
- Shin splints that are linked to rapid increases in running distance or intensity
- Recurrent shin pain due to inadequate rehab or premature return to sport
- Differential diagnosis support for conditions that mimic shin splints
Treatment Protocol for Shin Splints
Your shin splint physiotherapy plan will depend on symptom severity, activity goals, and contributing biomechanical factors. Treatment commonly follows these stages:
- Acute Phase: Reducing pain and irritation, modifying activity, restoring gentle mobility, and beginning basic calf activation.
- Rehabilitation Phase: Progressive strengthening, foot and ankle stability exercises, gait retraining, and graded loading to build tissue tolerance.
- Functional Phase: Sport-specific conditioning, return-to-running programs, impact training, and agility work as appropriate.
- Prevention Phase: Long-term strengthening, running technique refinement, and load-management strategies to maintain resilience and reduce re-injury risk.
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Physiotherapy for Shin Splints Trusted by the Best
Shin splints are one of the most common running and lower-leg overuse conditions, affecting runners, dancers, field-sport athletes, gym-goers, and anyone increasing training too quickly. With the right guidance, recovering from shin splints is highly achievable, and most people return to full performance with structured care.
Physiotherapy remains one of the most effective, evidence-based approaches to treating shin splints. Whether you’re dealing with early-stage irritation, persistent shin pain, or returning to sport after an overuse injury, our Ace Certified Practitioners are here to help you move better, feel better, and live better.
Ace-Certified Practitioners
Our specialists complete advanced training with us prior to becoming an Ace-Certified Practitioner.
About Ace Sports Clinic
Our mission is to inspire high performance through positive and personalised care. We do this by providing the highest standard of care in a full-service, professional and collaborative environment. Focusing on your specific needs, our Malvern team of practitioners work together to provide a positive experience that helps you achieve your goals through effective treatment and rehabilitation of shin splints.
Values
Excellence is our DNA
Simply, we believe in providing outstanding care.
Our clinic is based on a set of values that we live by every day:
- Holistic health and wellness incorporating mind, body and spirit
- Positivity, Honesty and Empathy.
- Positivity in our staff creates authentic connections
- We uphold the highest ethical standards – always
- Empathy is in our genes. How we relate to each other and our clients
- Collaboration of a multi-skilled team means better outcomes for our clients.
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Our Therapies
Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy is an active, exercise-focused approach to pain, injury and rehabilitation. Our Malvern physiotherapists will get you moving again and improve your strength and flexibility.
Osteopathy
Osteopathy is a gentle, hands-on approach to pain, injury and prevention. Our Malvern osteopaths will identify the underlying cause, rather than just treating your symptoms so you can move freely.
Exercise Physiology
Exercise physiology analyses the body’s responses to physical activity and how it adapts to over time. Our exercise physiologists work to maximise athletic performance, prevent illness and support recovery.
Massage Therapy
Massage therapy is the manipulation of soft tissues of the body including connective tissue, muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints. Our massage therapists can help with relaxation, recovery and performance.
Clinical Pilates
Pilates is a mind-body exercise that emphasises alignment, breathing, developing a strong core, and improving coordination and balance. It is practised with a qualified instructor on a mat or reformer.
Dry Needling
Dry needling reaches into the muscles releasing deep knots, tightness and tension providing pain relief and improved muscle activation. Visit our Malvern dry needling therapists today and experience better movement.
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Ace Sports Clinic Malvern
6/1 Milton Parade
Malvern, Victoria 3144
Opening Hours
Mon-Fri: 8:00am – 7:00pm
Sat: 8:00am – 1:00pm
Frequently Asked Questions
No, you do not require a referral to see any of our practitioners. Osteopathic practitioners, physiotherapists and chiropractors are primary health care practitioners who can accurately diagnose and manage all musculoskeletal injuries. We work closely with sports doctors and GPs, so are always happy to collaborate with your doctor if you request.
We accept all private health claims which can be processed on the spot. The level of private health coverage depends on your private health insurance plan and some limits for each modality can apply. Because we collaborate as a multidisciplinary team we can help maximise your benefits.
- if its your first visit, please complete all of the applicable forms online prior to your appointment. These forms will be emailed to you. If you experience any difficulties with the forms, please arrive 15-20 minutes before your scheduled appointment time so that we can assist you.
- Bring comfortable loose-fitting clothing to allow for the comprehensive assessment (t-shirt, shorts, running shoes).
- Bring any relevant medical information, copies of scans and reports, doctors’ notes and your current exercise program. These documents can also be emailed to us.
We accept HICAPS, Mastercard, Visa, American Express and EFTPOS. We can process private health claims on the spot so you only pay the gap.
No, but we do accept EPC Allied Health Medicare Plans from GPs which allow us to provide you with a Medicare rebate on your Allied Health Appointment
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03 9824 8001
Ace Sports Clinic Malvern
6/1 Milton Parade
Malvern, Vic Melbourne 3144
Opening Hours
Mon-Fri: 8:00am – 7:00pm
Sat: 8:00am – 1:00pm