Achy knees keeping you from working out? Then do these 5 stretches every day
New Delhi, Sept. 22 -- Suffer from achy, sore knees? Well, that's because you might not be stretching your knee muscles, or worse, not stretching them at all! Ladies, if you give these stretches a miss, then you're in for big trouble.
Just the way you stretch other muscles, it is equally important to flex your knees to improve your flexibility, mobility and in turn, overall performance.
"We need to understand that you're just not stretching the knee, but all the muscle groups that work around it," says Dr Mudit Khanna, orthopaedic and joint replacement surgeon at Wockhardt hospital, Mumbai.
"Our knee is stabilized by a number of muscles, including quads and hamstrings. If you don't stretch, then the length of these muscles reduces over...
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