Text Callout : Key Takeaway Knee Replacement Surgery There are two main types of knee replacement surgery: A total knee replacement ... and sometimes cut into the quadriceps muscles.

The individual muscles of the quadriceps total one of the largest muscle groups ... squat down until the crease of your hip passes below your knee, and your knees pass over your toes.

To determine if the combined isometric contractions of knee extension/hip adduction and knee extension/hip abduction will elicit a different quadriceps and gluteus medius electromyographic (EMG) ...

In patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA), pain and dysfunction cause a reflex inhibition on the quadriceps femoral muscle, and quadriceps weakness could accelerate damage to knee cartilage.