CKC Seated Repeated Knee Extension

Directions: Sit on a chair or table with one foot touching the ground and the knee slightly bent. Grasp your lower thigh with both hands and push your knee into extension, making sure to get into end-range. Repeat as indicated by your therapist. This exercise requires adherence to the "Stoplight System."

Green: Motion or pain is improving with each repetition.

Yellow: Amount of motion before pain occurs, pain intensity, centralization of symptoms, pain that can be "walked off," or pain that disappears with return to starting position improves with each repetition.

Red: Pain begins to peripheralize and stays peripheralized or pain that is increased with performance and cannot be "walked off." - STOP EXERCISE

Start Position

End Position

Note: exercises should only be performed if instructed by a properly trained health care practitioner.