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Modified Front Lunge Squat for Healthier & Stronger Knees

Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Jul 11, 2022
Exercises for Mobility and Functional Strength
Knee Mobility Exercises

For healthier knees, it's often helpful to do lunge squats where you take the front knee out beyond the plane of the same-side foot. The idea is to increase end-range strength, which promotes healthy blood circulation through the ligaments in and around the knees. Read more

 

5 Simple Hamstring Exercises for Improved Knee and Hip Function

Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Jan 10, 2022
Exercises for Mobility and Functional Strength
Knee Mobility Exercises

This video demonstrates a variety of simple hamstring-strengthening and activating exercises that almost invariably lead to improved knee and hip function. Please be sure to have the volume on your viewing device and within the video on for accompanying guidance for each exercise. Read more

 

A Highly Functional Way to Lengthen Your Hamstrings

Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Jan 15, 2020
Exercises for Mobility and Functional Strength
Knee Mobility Exercises

This is one of my favourite ways of lengthening the hamstrings. It’s somewhat of a blend between a back kick and a side kick in TaeKwonDo.

Keeping your hamstrings at a healthy length allows for optimal mobility through your lower back, pelvis, and knees. Read more

 

Variations of Squats to Improve Balance, Core Strength, and Lower Body Mobility

Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Jan 08, 2020
Healthy For Tennis
Exercises for Mobility and Functional Strength
Knee Mobility Exercises

A deck squat is the name for the movement pattern of rolling gently onto one's back, then using the momentum of rolling forward into a body-weight squat. Read more

 

A Simple Routine To Improve Knee Function

Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on May 07, 2019
Knee Mobility Exercises

For decades, the most common orthopedic surgery performed in developed countries has been knee arthroscopy. This makes sense, as 1 in 4 people 50 and over can expect to experience one or more symptoms of degenerative knee disease. Read more

 

Mobility Exercise Progressions for Lower Body Strength

Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Sep 06, 2016
Exercises for Mobility and Functional Strength
Knee Mobility Exercises

Day 3: Lower Body Strength

Squats:

Supported Single Leg Squats:

Cruciate Ligament Squats:

Medial Ligament Squats: Read more

 

3 Types of Squats to Improve Functional Knee Strength

Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Jun 07, 2016
Exercises for Mobility and Functional Strength
Knee Mobility Exercises

To build upon the prior video on strengthening exercises for knee pain and stiffness, here are three additional types of squats that are helpful in improving functional knee strength. I found a simple way to add audio to this video, so please be sure that your volume is on. Read more

 

Exercises for Knee Pain

Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Jan 29, 2016
Natural Health Solutions
Knee Mobility Exercises

When hamstrings and calves are short and hypertonic from lack of mindful use and stretching, their tendons can generate a low-grade backward pulling force on the tibia or femur, which predisposes the quadriceps and patellar tendon that runs along the anterior portion of the knee to injury. This is why regular stretching of your hamstrings, gastrocnemius, and soleus is essential to supporting healthy knee function. Read more

 
 
 

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