Is Creatine Causing Your Shin Pain? + Splitting Training, Endometriosis for Lifters | Direct Line · May 2026

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This is the free preview of the May 2026 Direct Line, our monthly AMA for Barbell Medicine Plus subscribers. Three reader questions answered in full.We open with a mid-30s woman with bilateral shin pain and exertional foot numbness who started creatine a month ago and is asking whether the supplement is the cause. We walk through the compartment syndrome literature, the 2025 case report being passed around online and misinterpreted, what creatine actually does to total body water (and what it do

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