The three muscle groups behind knee stability, and how to train them
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Running, climbing stairs, squatting to pick something up from the floor: every one of these movements passes through the knees. It is easy to take that for granted until they start to complain. “Everybody could probably benefit from some sort of strengthening to improve stability of the knee,” says Carrie Whitelam, a physical therapist at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. Knee stability, as Whitelam defines it, is “the ability to maintain alignme
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Advances in DNA sequencing have expanded our view of the microbial world, but the inability to cultivate most microbes h…
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IP Group Portfolio Advances Cystic Fibrosis Research Breakthrough Kalkine Media
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM In long-term studies where people had their cognitive ability tracked from youth in…