Dealing with pain?
Get this exercise inside a fully guided PT program built for you, with tutorial-style video, reps, and progressions.
Explore the Prehab AppExercise Library
Standing Isometric Knee Extension - Wall
Is this for yourself or for a patient?
HOW: Stand against a wall and place a towel roll behind your knee with your heel as close as you can to the wall. Support your hips on the wall and push into the towel with the back of your knee flexing the top thigh muscles and hold for the time prescribed.
FEEL: You should feel the quadriceps muscles working on the top of your thigh.
COMPENSATION: Only allow motion in your knee.
Turn this exercise into a full plan
Clinician or PT?
Pull this exercise straight into a patient's HEP in Prehab Professional, with cueing notes built in.
Build Custom HEP’s