patellar

If you stop at parallel, there is shearing force on the patellar tendon as that's where the tension is at the time when you change directions.

Using a soft screwdriver handle, gently tap the top of your knee where your patellar is located.

You're performing the patellar reflex procedure which will cause your hamstrings to contract and your leg to kick out gently.

Done warm, let alone cold, they can cause patellar tendonopathy, back strains and hamstring strains.

Without looking it up, can you think of another direct way to improve patellar tracking issues due to overdeveloped vastus lateralis?

But if you go all the way down, there is almost no load on your patellar tendon at the bottom when you change directions--the load is transferred to your glutes and hamstrings.

I had a bucket-handle tear of my right lateral meniscus, chondromalacia patellae grade 3 and a patellar tendinopathy.

Sort of like the notion that weak VMOs are the source of patellar pain and that targeting them leads to positive outcomes.

I’m currently 1 week into recovery from a painful shredded (the surgeon’s words) patellar tendon and repair.

Push yourself to hard too fast and you'll be ignoring the track and back in the weight room recovering from something like patellar tendinitis.

I didn't learn to kick my leg in response to a tap on the patellar tendon.

I dealt with a case of chronic patellar tendonitis for years between ages 23 and 26.

The central nervous system already is “multi-core”, with tiny logic handling such things as the patellar reflex.

Obviously the patellar reflex doesn't make it past the spinal cord, and I've never actually believed that the spectrum of intelligent behaviors can be sorted into "conscious" or "unconscious" categories, by including some sort of wet Boolean or whatever.