Gluteal muscle activation during common therapeutic exercises.

Distefano et al., (2009)

A key paper in comparing electromyographic signal amplitude of the gluteus maximus and gluteus medius muscles during exercises of varying difficulty to determine which exercise most effectively recruits these muscles.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19574661

 

 

VMO and Quads activation exercise after ACL knee surgery | Feat. Tim Keeley | No.51 | Physio REHAB

 

Acitvation and strenthening the quadriceps and VMO with the knee extension heel raise exercise over a towel – which gets the best activation of the VMO post-opertatively in the initial stages.