Your vastus medialis helps to stabilize your kneecap and keep it in line when you bend your knee. If you have knee pain or a knee injury, it may be due to weakness of your vastus medialis or other ...

Even if your knee injury happened a while ago, it can still cause pain. But so can many other things, including arthritis and other conditions. To find out what’s going on in your case, you’ll ...

If you reduce 1 kg of weight, the weight on your knees will be reduced by four times, says senior physiotherapist Dr Shakeeb Ahmed Khan.

Your knees power every step, bend and sidestep, but they’re not invincible. When they ache, whether from an old injury, ...

Here are 5 simple, yet highly effective exercises Dr. Karlsson recommends to banish knee pain and offset the damaging effects of sitting all day: ... "TKEs target the vastus medialis obliquus ...

These include the four muscles of the quadriceps (vastus lateralis, intermedius and medialis, ... Knee pain accounts for approximately 5% of all primary care visits in adults worldwide.

The upright form you can get into with help from the strap reduces force on the knees while targeting your knee extensors—the vastus medialis (VM) and vastus lateralis (VL)—two key parts of ...

The seated knee extension targets the quadriceps—rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus intermedius, and vastus medialis—a ...

Patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) describes patellar knee pain that is not due to tendinosis, CP or PF OA. ... Progressive strengthening exercises of the quadriceps, especially of the inner quads ...

Methods 24 individuals with refractory AKP received either BoNT-A (500 U Dysport) or the same volume saline injection to the vastus lateralis (VL) muscle and performed home exercises focusing on ...