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2. The 8 Smartest Knee Exercises to Help Keep Your Joints ... - AOL

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   Once you have some expert insight and feel comfortable doing exercises at home, consider adding the knee strengthening exercises below into your routine—they’ll help you perform better in the ...

3. Suffer from knee pain? These 12 exercises will help - AOL

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   Seated leg raises. To complete this knee-strengthening exercise, start by sitting on a chair with both knees bent. Keeping one foot on the ground, engage the other leg by straightening the leg out ...

4. Isolation Exercises Are Essential to Maximize Your Workout Gains

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   Isolation exercises, or single-joint movements that focus on just one muscle at a time, ... C.S.C.S. demonstrates, you can use other means to work knee flexion and isolate your hamstrings. Try the ...

5. Posterior cruciate ligament injury - Wikipedia

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   Some exercises to strengthen the quadriceps and hamstring muscles include leg curls, leg lifts, prone knee flexion with resistance band and knee extensions. Some stretches to help prevent injury to the posterior cruciate ligament include stretching of the hamstring muscles by extending the legs, toes pointing up, leaning forward until the ...

6. Squat (exercise) - Wikipedia

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   The barbell back squat Bodyweight squat. A squat is a strength exercise in which the trainee lowers their hips from a standing position and then stands back up. During the descent, the hip and knee joints flex while the ankle joint dorsiflexes; conversely the hip and knee joints extend and the ankle joint plantarflexes when standing up.

7. Calf raises - Wikipedia

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   Bridging exercises are done with a flexed knee to lessen the stretch on the hamstring (a knee flexor) and focus the hip extension work on the gluteus maximus. In that same respect, the reduced knee flexion makes plantar flexion work comparable to a seated calf raise, due to the lessened stretch on the gastrocnemius (like the hamstring, also a knee flexor).

8. 10 Worst Exercises for Bad Knees (And What to Do Instead) - AOL

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   Replace your high-intensity exercises with knee-friendly, low-impact options. Aim to perform these movements for the same duration as your high-impact workouts, ideally 30 to 60 minutes per ...

9. Meniscus tear - Wikipedia

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   For patients with meniscal transplantation, further knee flexion can damage the allograft because of the increased shear forces and stresses. If any weight-bearing exercises are applied, a controlled brace should be worn on the knee to keep the knee at near (<10°) or full extension. [57]