In our increasingly sedentary world, prolonged sitting has become a modern health villain, often leading to tight hips, weak ...

In resting and contraction conditions, the shear modulus, muscle thickness and pennation angle were measured for the vastus medialis (VM), vastus lateralis (VL) and the rectus femoris (RF) using ...

Eligible studies were those that: (1) examined the effects of hip strengthening in subjects with PFPS; (2) examined the effects of physiotherapy treatment aimed at restoring muscle balance between the ...

The inferior fibers act as a static stabilizer, and the superior fibers act in the dynamic stabilization of the patella, due to their close relationship with the tendon of the vastus medialis obliquus ...