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All these activities force you to engage your quadriceps muscles, a key muscle group necessary for knee function.

Build Your Body's 'Natural Knee Brace': Exercise your quadriceps, hamstrings, and other muscles to improve your knee function and, potentially, reduce your risk of knee osteoarthritis

Inhibition of the quadriceps muscles in patients with anterior knee pain.

Backward walking alters vastus medialis oblique/vastus lateralis muscle activity ratio in females with patellofemoral pain syndrome

[15,16] The protocol was emphasized on strengthening quadriceps muscles as well as other muscles surrounding the knee joint and working on knee which contributes in maintaining stability of the knee.

Immediate effect of taping in physical performance of osteoarthritis of knee joint

However, the limb blood flow was measured in the calf and not the quadriceps muscles, which are typically dominant in many lower extremity exercises.

The Effect of Low Intensity Wearable Ultrasound on Blood Lactate and Muscle Performance after High Intensity Resistance Exercise

But the researchers also supplied an electric current to the nerve that stimulates the quadriceps muscles used in leg extensions.

Heavy weight lifters enjoy greater strength gains than low-load lifters

The quadriceps muscles, located in the front of your thighs, make up the largest muscle group in your body.

Strengthen your quadriceps to maintain good mobility: thigh muscles play a key role in many of your daily activities

When the subjects attended the laboratory on the next time, they carried out the following intervention protocol in a randomized order on 5 separate days; (a) non-stretching (control), (b) static stretching of the quadriceps muscles, (c) static stretching of the hamstring muscles, (d) dynamic stretching of the quadriceps muscles, and (e) dynamic stretching of the hamstring muscles.

Effects of static and dynamic stretching on the isokinetic peak torques and electromyographic activities of the antagonist muscles

In the present study, muscles in the lower extremities, that is, the quadriceps muscles, were evaluated and no difference in the GFI of knee extensor was found between groups.

Fatigue and Muscle Strength Involving Walking Speed in Parkinson's Disease: Insights for Developing Rehabilitation Strategy for PD