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Originally Posted by Siege
Use a baseball bat and rub it up and down (firmly) your shin daily. It hurts like hell but it supposedly works.
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Back in the day, my sifu told me that such practices wouldn't work. Granted, he was a kung fu instructor, not muay thai. My hands, elbows, shins, and feet used to be way tougher than they are now, but just though mass repetition on pads and bags. The bags were always filled with grains of some sort (dry beans, wheat, etc).
Other than ice and a little 'chinese ointment' (some sort of methol based liquid that was bought in chinatown, I didn't have much recovery method.
The trees that were kicked way back when were soft banana trees.