I have tremendous shin pain when i exercise and its not shin splints because i had a mri and it came back negative for inflammation, why do i have pain?

Ouch: The top four causes of exercise related leg pain in young athletes are stress fractures (local pain and pain with impact), medial tibial stress syndrome (broader area of pain over the inner back part of your leg along the bone), exertional compartment syndrome (no pain at rest, worse into exercise then goes away with rest) and popliteal artery entrapment syndrome (pain in calf with exercise, .

Resistance condition: Resistance conditioning might help. Try putting a bean bag on the top of your foot and then bending your ankle to lift your toes up. As you lift your toes tip them so the sole of your foot faces outward. That motion should strengthen the muscle that is usually responsible for shin splint type pain. In addition, balancing up on your tip toes is another good exercise to strengthen those muscles.