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Let's focus on recovery here...

8 days ago I went running on hard concrete (I know now that this was an error) and now my shins are sore as all hell. I have since went out and bought a new pair of shows from New Balance.

I have been icing my shins off on for 20 minutes.
Lying down with my legs elevated and avoiding long walks.
I gave myself a massage yesterday which I feel really helped.

Are there any supplements I should be looking at?
I'm continuing to take protein and my multi-vitamins.

Cheers

24 reads and no suggestions... hmmm... come on girls... we can do better.

I have chronic shin splints too and no supplement has ever worked for me. The best advice my doctor gave was to stretch before and after running, soak in hot water - either a gym hot tub or preferably a long soak at home with a lot of Epson salt, and deep tissue or reiki massage. The massages, of course, can get expensive, but a 90 minute treatment, combined with the full body massage really does help, especially if you have a good therapist who knows how to massage the shins and calves.

There really isn't any magic wand my man
... what you did was tear the thick band of tissue (fascia) away from the tibia (shin bone)
it will repair itself
icing will help also anti-inflammatories (Advil)
drink plenty of water
also massage lightly the muscle.. not the shin bone to the side of the shin
this will help flush out the congestion in this muscle

when you go running next time
stretch the hell out of you calves and hamstrings
this is what gave you the problem in the first place

Alec_Brandon said24 reads and no suggestions... hmmm... come on girls... we can do better.

LOL. Sorry man. I read but had nothing for ya. I've had shin splints since Frosh year doing high school track. As far as recovery, the only thing anyone has ever told me is ice, ice, and more ice.

Check out a copy of Pete Egoscue's book "Pain free"- he has some great exercises for healing and preventing shin splints. You may also want to check out a weight training device called a DARD avail from power-systems.com and Q-fac.com. It is a device used to train the muscles next to your shin.

Have you tried having a gait analysis done? I used to get terribe shin splints and then i went to a specialty shoe store and had this done. They put me in mizuno running shoes for pronators and bam, no more shin splints. I live and breath by these stores now. They are no more expensive then a regular shoe store either.

Alec_Brandon saidLet's focus on recovery here...

Are there any supplements I should be looking at?
I'm continuing to take protein and my multi-vitamins.

Cheers

First, you're name sounds like a porn star name. ;^) [Just joking]

Second, the only "supplement" I could suggest might be magnesium or the like, to make sure your electrolytes are in balance.