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sitting heel slide - beginner Lower Body exercise
  • Lower Body
  • beginner

sitting heel slide

Sitting knee flexion and extension exercise performed by sliding heel forward and backward along the floor.

Starting position
sitting
Joints
knee
Muscles
quadriceps, hamstrings
Equipment
chair
Goal
postural correction, mobility
Type
isotonic concentric, active, isotonic eccentric

How it is done

Sit on a chair and keep feet on the floor. Slide the heel of one foot away from the chair thereby extending the knee. Bend the knee by slidng the heel towards the chair.

Nothing here is a prescription. Your physiotherapist decides which of these are yours, and when.

The plan starts with an assessment.