A hammertoe is a crooked toe that is painful because the first knuckle of the toe sticks up and rubs on the toe box of the shoe. A mallet toe is a toe in which the last joint is bent downward at a right angle so that the tip of the toe is …

While every shin splint injury has its own specific biomechanical causes, most are rooted in tight calf muscles and relative weakness in the front leg muscles. Whats going on is that your tight calves are pulling up on your heel, which in …