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 ...

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

Even if your knee injury happened a while ago ... track”), so your doctor will pay particular attention to the vastus medialis, a muscle in your mid-thigh that extends to the knee.

These include the four muscles of the quadriceps (vastus lateralis, intermedius and medialis ... aids internal knee rotation (gracilis) and three of the four calf muscles. Knee pain can typically ...

Medication. NSAIDs can be taken orally or applied topically to reduce knee inflammation, pain and swelling symptoms. 4. Muscle strengthening. Progressive strengthening exercises of the quadriceps, ...

“There are many muscular attachments around the hips that help control the motion of the knee joint and your ... of the gluteus medius and the vastus medialis, and stretching the lateral ...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the knee joint dynamics during a forward lunge could be modulated by experimentally induced vastus medialis pain in healthy subjects.

muscle and performed home exercises focusing on re-training the vastus medialis (VM) muscle. All subjects were offered open-label injection at 12 weeks. Knee-related disability (anterior knee pain ...

The vastus lateralis directly opposes the vastus medialis muscle on the inner portion ... Failure of these muscles to function properly may lead to knee pain from patellofemoral stress syndrome ...