Most of these conditions are caused by overuse and stress on a part of the lower leg.Causes of shin pain include shin splints (medial tibial stress syndrome), stress fracture (small crack [s] in the tibia), …Straighten the front knee and extend the arm forward and then down to the shin, the floor next to the leg, or a block.Shin (letter), the twenty-first letter in many semitic alphabets, including hebrew ש „ and arabic ø´â€¬ „ shin buddhism, a widely practiced branch of buddhism in japan, named after its founder, shinranThe tibia, or shinbone, is the most commonly fractured long bone in the body.A tibial shaft fracture occurs along the length of the bone, below the knee and above the ankle.