Let me tell you exercises that you should avoid because they're going to compress your knee joint more and make your Chondromalacia Patella problem worse as time goes on. First one, straight leg raises or straight leg lifts, picking up your leg just like this. Another one leg straight tightening your quads. This is called quad sets or quad contractions. Sometimes we'll have you push down against a pillow or a towel, but you're tightening up these muscles in the front while slides absolutely terrible for your knees. They're going to force you to use your quad muscles a lot. And chances are, if you've done these, they're making your knee pain worse during the exercise and you're probably scratching your head. This is healthy for your not leg extensions. The machine that has a pad right here that you push against and there's weights on the side. Terrible. You might get that false feedback that you're getting a good workout because you can see your quad muscles getting that pump in right after you get off the machine. You feel just all the blood and your muscle. It feels good, but it's making your knee problem worse. You need to stop.

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