Background: Many injury prevention and rehabilitation programs aim to train hamstring and quadriceps co-activation to constrain excessive anterior tibial translation and protect the anterior cruciate ...

Put a sturdy chair against the wall and stand up from it slowly. That sounds ordinary, but the rep tells a useful story about ...

Distance runners have always known they need not look like super-muscular sprinters or body builders. Bulging muscles don't improve performance; they make you big and bulky when you want to be lean ...

CHICAGO -- Larger quadriceps relative to hamstrings may lower the risk of needing total knee replacement surgery, according to findings from the NIH's Osteoarthritis Initiative. In fact, an evaluation ...

Hamstring injuries are some of the most prevalent in high-intensity sports like soccer, basketball, and football. Seeing your favorite player pull up lame and grab the back of their leg is devastating ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . MPFL reconstruction with superficial quadriceps autograft yielded similar clinical outcomes to those with ...

Much like their name implies, the quadricep muscles were once thought to be a set of four muscles, with the name “quad” translating to “four or fourth” in Latin. However, it has since been discovered ...

The hamstrings can be a common source of frustration among endurance runners—especially mid-distance runners or those who don’t focus on strength training. But with proper care and attention paid to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Quadriceps tendon grafts had a revision rate of 2.7% vs. 3% for bone-patellar tendon-bone grafts. Quadriceps ...

The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate whether hamstring-quadriceps co-activation altered knee joint motion and limited ACL elongation during a step-up task. Although preliminary, the ...