Knee injuries are notoriously common, painstaking to resolve and often utterly avoidable. The problem isn't weak knees, per se, but poorly conditioned muscles, ligaments and tendons that support the ...

The Imperial College team has published its findings in the Journal of Anatomy ... have longer shinbones and larger calf muscles. These changes put the knee under more pressure.

The trapezius muscle can act as a fixator when the biceps is flexing the elbow joint. The abdominals can act as fixators to stabilise the body for hip and knee movements. Preparation and execution ...

Muscles transfer force to bones through tendons ... their hamstrings contract to flex the knee while the quadriceps lengthens to allow the movement. The hamstrings are the agonist and the ...