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

Squats are one of the major compound lifts, and countless variations—back squats, goblet squats, split squats, front ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...