How to Make a Homemade Shin Splint

Whether through your own fault or someone else's, you may find yourself with a broken, fractured or otherwise injured leg. You need to get to a doctor, but you can't get there until you make sure that you can travel safely. To help keep travel safe, create a temporary splint until you get to a doctor. You may also make a splint to care for minor stresses and strains to the leg.

Things You'll Need

• 2 wooden dowels, 5-inch diameter
• 2 bed sheets
• Pocket knife
• Rope

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Instructions

• 1

  Wrap bed sheets around two wooden dowels so that both dowels are well padded.

• 2

  Carve a notch into the ends of both wooden dowels using a pocket knife.

• 3

  Place the two splints on the outside and the inside of the fractured leg, so that neither one touches the front of the shin or the back of the calf. The notch should sit on the bottom side of the splint, near the foot. Both splints should extend to the ground.

• 4

  Tie the splint around the leg using your rope. Keep the splint tight enough to prevent further injury to the shin, but not so tight as to prevent blood flow or damage the leg. Place a piece of rope under the foot and pull the rope through the notches at the bottom of each wooden dowel. Wrap and tie this rope around the ankle to prevent the splint from moving.