Stretch Your way to Healthy Knees

Believe it or not, stretching can be as beneficial to the health of your knees as physical activity itself.   When muscles are tight and lack flexibility, it can crank out your knee joint, and the surrounding tissues, to become atrophic, therefore exacerbating pain.

Stretching will help to put the muscles surrounding the actual joints from becoming so stiff this place lose range-of-motion.   For healthy and pain free knees, keeping the surrounding muscles and ligaments changeable is imperative.  

Here are excellent stretches for increasing the health and flexibility of your joints:

Iliotibial Band Stretch

Stand straight up and cross one leg behind traditional.   Lean on the front leg if you feel a stretch across the outside of the thigh.   Hold this pose using full thirty seconds, indicate five times, and then switch legs.  

Quadriceps Stretch

Hold a standing position as well as set one hand on a counter top or chair for go with.   Bend one knee back because you were attempting to the touch your heel to regarding bottom.   Use your free hand to help pull your foot as close to your bottom as possible and hold the position for at least thirty seconds.   Make it happen exercise five times with each leg.

Hamstring Stretch

Sit on the earth and extend both legs straight out till you.   Reach your arms forward just as if you were sleepwalking and bend at the waist if you can.   Keep your knees straight and constantly touch your toes.   Offer the position for ten no time at all before resting.   Repeat the process five times.

Calf Stretch

Sit on the earth with your legs extended till you.   Use a small towel, belt, or sheet to create a loop, holding one weekend break comes closer the towel or belt holdings and liabilities hand.   Place the loop shopping one foot (preferably between the foot and the toes).   Pull the loop toward the body thereby pulling your toes toward you.   Pull until you sense a firm but comfortable stretch of an calf.   If you feel pain, stop.   Offer the pose for twenty no time at all and repeat five times on both legs.  

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