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Side Leg Lift Physical Therapy Exercises for Knees

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Summary: How to do side leg lift 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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by mark22

This was a very helpful video of low stress exercises for the knee. I was looking for easy exercises after a knee injury in basketball. The swelling had gone down and I did not want to overwork it, but I did want to stretch the knee muscles and gain some strength on the muscles. Thanks for the video.

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Side Leg Lift Physical Therapy Exercises for Knees

Hi! My name is Monica and I'm going to show you another exercise that will help on your knee. This is a great one to do because your are actually just keeping your knee straight to the whole exercise itself so if your knee is kind of painful to be moving it and bending it this is a exercise that you could do that actually strengthens your quad muscles and help you stabilize. What you want to do is just lie on back It is actually best if you are propped up on your hands or if you have some pillows back behind you there, have one knee bent, the right leg straight, this is the leg that we are going to be working. What your are going to want to do is tighten your quad muscles first. Make sure your quad muscles are tighten try to lift your leg off the ground. It does not have to be that high about 6 inches is good and then let it relax. Tighten that quad muscles bring your leg back up, pull it for about 5-6 seconds and back on down. If this gets to be to easy for you, you could always stick a leg weight on there. You buy the ankle weights from the stores. Be sure to switch to the other leg and you could do again starting off with 5 on each leg and work your way on up.

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