WHETHER YOU'RE LOOKING to increase your squat max, or lower your half marathon time, strengthening your knee extension can help you reach your fitness goals. Knee extension is one of the chief actions ...

Objective: To determine if the combined isometric contractions of knee extension/hip adduction and knee extension/hip abduction will elicit a different quadriceps and gluteus medius electromyographic ...

"Speed or strength, which is more important?" may be a critical question for not only athletes but also knee surgery patients. Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have revealed that knee ...

Dynamic stretches are movements that people perform at a slower pace than most workouts. Individuals tend to do dynamic stretches to warm up their muscles and prepare for exercise. In recent years, ...

Dynamic stretches are stretches that move you through your full range of motion. You should do dynamic stretches before working out and static stretches after exercise. Dynamic stretching is a type of ...

1 Graduate School of Health and Sport Science, Nippon Sport Science University, Tokyo, Japan 2 Graduate School of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Saitama, Japan Background Biomechanical studies ...

The success of a total knee replacement largely depends on accurate balancing of flexion and extension gaps in the sagittal plane. The general technique to achieve this is to resect the same amount of ...