Knee injuries are notoriously common, painstaking to resolve and often utterly avoidable. The problem isn't weak knees, per ...

Straight leg raises are a great way to target the quadriceps muscles in the front of your thigh. This exercise activates the knee-supporting muscle without placing excessive pressure on the knee joint ...

This exercise helps control that movement, particularly in the mid-stance phase of the gait, Tamir explains. How to do it: Sit in a chair with right leg extended straight, left knee bent and foot ...

While exercise-based strategies resulted in less knee, ankle and hip/groin injuries, and the use of multiple training components was associated with greater reductions in overall and knee injuries, ...

1 Sydney Medical School Nepean, The University of Sydney, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia 2 School of Physiotherapy, Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Sydney, New South Wales, ...

According to the report, knee pain cases have increased by 65 percent in the past 20 years. Doing the clamshell exercise, which strengthens the hips and glutes, helps in walking and sitting up.

A recent study linked knee pain with ill-fitting sports bras. Two athletic trainers explain why—and give advice on how to ...