Directions: While lying on your back, bring your knees to your chest using your hands, making sure to get to end-range. If this position bothers your knees, your hands can be placed behind your knees grabbing your thighs instead. 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.