Nerve Knot on Ridge of Shin

[Gavin LeFever]

I'm just gathering opinions. I have a nasty little nerve cluster on the ridge of my shin, 1/4 the way down my shin, from my knee, where I like to check kicks (because it's the thicker part obv.).

I've developed a little knot that's painful. It's like a small pea under the skin and pressing it sends shoots of pain. I'm not here to cry about it, but I'm wondering what I can or should do. It's not enough pain to sit me out of sparring even if I check right on the spot, but I don't want to develop something worse.

A few pro fighters suggested just mashing it out with a rolling pin or glass bottle, or try rolling it out lightly and see what happens. I think I'll try massaging it for a week with my hands a lot and see what happens, then decide from there.

All over, my shin is fairly beaten up. but bone bruises on the flat face of the shin heal, for me, fairly quick, and I try to keep conditioning up with consistency on the bag. This knot came from getting checked with a knee and it actually split the skin, leaving a neat scar. I was wearing sweat pants so I didn't notice the blood and my shin pads had worked themselves down a bit, baring the shin.

 

[ssssmashing]

Take alieve, ice it and raise it. Fairly typial stuff. If it doesn't go away in about 6 weeks or gets more painful go get it checked out because it may be a stress fracture.

 

[Kyryllo]

Take some inflammation stoppers for a week along with aspirin. It may be a blood cloth or scar tissue. In one case the knot dissolves completely in the other it might stay but the pain goes away. Either way after a week of anti-inflammation medicine (diclophenac, ibuprofen etc.) it should be better. When not go see a doc. I had a thing like that on my middle finger knuckle. It was scar tissue and the doc cut it out, no problems since.

A very rare and unlikely possibility is a tumor, if skin gets hammered on often it may develop a tumor.

 

[ChachiKiller]

Arnold Schwarzenagger voice " Its nat a tuma"

 

[ssssmashing]

A cyst is far more likely than a tumor. Treat it as I listed above and you should be fine.

 

[Marvin Covar]

I had something like that happen to me back when I was starting out. I was doing the daily thing of kicking the bag (around 100 or so times each leg at the time) after training and this clot-like thing appeared on my shin. I've tried everything, from massaging it with Thai oil to having xrays to rolling it down with a pin but it's been four years and although it has lessened in size in time, it's still there.