Treatment
Treatment depends on whether your injury was caused by bad mechanics or overuse. For overuse use should use the R.I.C.E method and go to the doctor to get a medical opinion. For bad mechanics you should also R.I.C.E and get a medical opinion while also taking a break from your sport and going to a PT to correct whatever you were doing wrong in the first place.
Surgery for shin splints is really rare unless your condition worsens into compartment syndrome (excessive pain builds within a muscle compartment). If this happens and the pain is severe surgery may be required to open up the fascia (the thick tissue that surrounds muscle groups). Shin splints is not an acute injury because the injury occurs over a period of time not one single traumatic event.
Surgery for shin splints is really rare unless your condition worsens into compartment syndrome (excessive pain builds within a muscle compartment). If this happens and the pain is severe surgery may be required to open up the fascia (the thick tissue that surrounds muscle groups). Shin splints is not an acute injury because the injury occurs over a period of time not one single traumatic event.