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Summary: How to do quad range of motion exercises as physical therapy for the knees; get expert tips and advice on treating leg pain in this free physical therapy video.
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Monica Paradise Monica Paradise works at Industrial Hand and Physical Therapy in Phoenix, Arizona. She graduated from Northern Arizona University with a degree in exercise sc... read more
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Questions & AnswersHi! My name is Monica and I'm going to show some more exercises that you could do for your knees. This next exercise is one of the more basic exercises and it going to be focusing more on your quad muscles right here and all it is, is simply nice straight posture, up right, you want to hold on to the side of the chair you can but basically your going to take and your going to extend your knee out all the way. So you are tighten all these muscles right in here and then your relaxing, back up again, holding, relaxing. So when you come up you want a nice control, you want to squeeze pull it for about 5 seconds 3-5 seconds somewhere around in there and relax and back down. Come on up, hold it you should feel your quad muscles tightening up here, relaxing, up again really squeezing especially concentrating on this low leg area there. Switch to the other leg, again coming up, pulling 5 seconds back down. You might only be able to start off with 5 on each leg then you could work your way up to 10,15. You could also get ankle weights and you could add some of the ankle weights onto your legs on there if you want to challenge yourself a little bit more.
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