The bones connect to each other by pieces of flexible, fibrous tissue called ligaments. Similar pieces called tendons connect the muscles that move your leg to the bones. When you hurt your leg ...

The MCL (medial collateral ligament ... your injured leg unbent and behind you, with your heel flat and toes pointed in slightly. Place both hands against the wall at shoulder height.

A doctor or physical therapist may recommend resting the injured leg as much as possible, especially in the days following the sprain. Resting gives the ligament time to heal and the inflammation ...

Rotate your right leg back to squat, then stand up. Do the exercise two more times, then switch sides. Mobility is the ability to move easily. Flexibility is the ability to stretch ligaments ...

Single leg drop jump performance metrics, like the jump height and reactive strength index ... Potential participants were excluded if they had concomitant grade III knee ligament injury (other than ...

The adductor moves the leg back under the body's mass. Working both these muscles also works the side ligaments of the knee; the medial collateral (inner) and lateral collateral (outer).

Some 30 per cent of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears heal within two ... The ACL straddles the knee to connect bones in the leg – the tibia in the shin to the femur in the thigh.