Stronger hips improved running mechanics, lessened knee pain

Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 10:00 in Health & Medicine

Hip strengthening exercises performed by female runners not only significantly reduced patellofemoral pain -- a common knee pain experienced by runners -- but they also improved the runners' gaits, according to Indiana University motion analysis expert Tracy Dierks.

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