Knee Pain Exercises Especially for Women

Many women need to strengthen knees because of knee pain? Because of their anatomy, women are more likely to have knee pain than men. However, much of this pain can be relieved with a few simple exercises.

Many active women suffer from inflammation of the joint between the knee cap (patella) and the knee (distal femur).  The reason is that because of the wider pelvis that women have, the muscles of the thigh tend to pull the knee cap off to the side. The result is that it gets increasingly inflamed and painful.

The pain from this type of problem is normally just in the front of the knee. It will be painful to straighten out your leg when you are sitting. It will be tender on the side of the knee cap.

Women can often relieve this pain with a few simple exercises. The goal of these exercises is to strengthen the muscles of the front of the thigh called the quadricep muscles that will pull the knee cap straight.

To strengthen the quadriceps, simply lie down on your bed and do straight leg raises. Don't bend the knee. It is already inflamed and you don't need to make that worse. Just repeatedly raise your leg. This will strengthen the quadriceps.

If you get a bit tired from doing this ten times, just keep doing it. But, if you are in pretty good shape already and this does not make you tired at all, it is time to step things up a bit.

When you are ready, the next step is to do the same exercise with weights. To do this just get an old purse and put a can of food in it and repeat the straight leg raises. As you get stronger, gradually increase the weight in the old purse.

During this time you can take a good anti-inflammatory medication such as Ibuprofen. It will help get rid of the inflammation and alleviate the pain you are having in your knee. By doing these exercises regularly, you should not need to use the medication for more than a few days.