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When ‘Strengthen Your Quads’ Is Bad Advice for Beating Knee Pain
During a long struggle with chronic knee pain, I noticed one practically ubiquitous bit of advice. It was so widespread, I quipped in a book I later wrote about my recovery, that a gumball-type machine dispensing tips for knee pain sufferers would spit out plastic balls containing a single strip of paper. On it would be printed three words:
"Strengthen your quads!"
"Quads," of course, stands for the quadriceps. These four large muscles in the thigh control leg extensions at the knee. The poor knee joint absorbs a lot of force during ordinary daily activities (walking, squatting, climbing stairs) and not-so-ordinary activities (running, playing tennis). Strong quads help stabilize the joint and cushion it against those many impacts.
So you may be thinking: For a knee pain sufferer, what's not to like about "strengthen your quads"?
Exactly what I thought too, before following that advice almost destroyed my bad knees.
Full story of knee pain at Huffington Post
April 3rd, 2012 - 20:54
As a member of the medical world, your story makes sense. Our practice only uses the quad machines when it can be tolerated. Otherwise, most of our knee pain patients use the thera-tubing and go through a program focused on high repetition, low resistance. Does great for rejuvenating the joint fluid!