You practice quad stretches all the time in yoga, whether you’re aware that’s what you’re doing or not. But you might be more familiar with its opposite action, quad contraction--you know, that ...

After an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery, it's common to experience quadriceps weakness, which was thought to be caused primarily by muscle atrophy, or shrinkage. But researchers at ...

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 ...

This week we are going to discuss something that is very important in the rehabilitative process and carries over into daily life – the eccentric muscle contraction. Eccentric muscle contractions ...