Shin splints for over 2 months???

sounds like stress fractures, Your friend should get a second medical opinion. Also, drink whole milk and eat red meat once per week.

Sounds like a stress fracture with some strength deficiencies and maybe even some phantom pains. It could be worse, I became anemic a while back, kept running and lost more weight than I could afford to lose and got shin splints so bad I had to train 90 percent of the time on the bike and in the pool. It's been over a year and a half and I'm finally starting to feel better. I was still able to improve so don't make excuses that the injury kept you from running, shin splints just hurt so race hard and train on the bike. O and have your friend stop landing on his heels as that's the main culprit with shin splints. Get a shoe with a lower heel to as that helps to reduce force on the heel

I had shin splints for about 6 months at one point. In the end three things helped. One was deep tissue massage through my shins and feet. Another was hip alignment. The third was i used a vet product for horses every time i ran. This kept the symptoms at bay whilst the other treatments started to work.

It is an elastic bandage you wrap around and it clings to itself. Can't remember the name though.