MIT researchers have introduced a groundbreaking bionic knee designed to significantly improve mobility for people with above ...

The muscles around the back of the thigh known as the hamstrings are responsible for extension of the hip and flexion of the knee, making them equally essential for physical activity.

Knee Extension Range of Motion and Self-report Physical Function in Total Knee Arthroplasty ... Based on what is known about the length-dependent nature of muscle force production, ...

Stronger thigh muscles may reduce the need for total knee replacement surgery, study finds In the U.S., 14 million adults have symptomatic knee osteoarthritis and more than 600,000 undergo total ...

The muscles around the back of the thigh known as the hamstrings are responsible for extension of the hip and flexion of the knee, making them equally essential for physical activity.

Published in the 'Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology', the results show that one of the extension muscles of the knee, rectus femoris muscle, belonging to the quadriceps muscle group, ...

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 ...

Those three muscles all cross your knee joint, so they help with the knee extension portion of the move. [Related: This protein may hold one of the secrets to predicting muscle growth] ...