Hip & Knee Joint Strengthening Exercises for Arthritis Pain Relief

Video Transcript

"Hi! I am Monica. Another exercise I am going to show you for arthritis is going to be another strengthening exercise and this exercise is going to get the muscles on the side of the leg, the upper part of the leg. So it is going to be helping with both hip and knee joints. You are going to want to lie on the bed or on the floor and go ahead and lie down on your side. We will be working the left leg, so you want to have the right leg just bent comfortably underneath you. The left leg, what you are going to want to do is have it straight out so that your whole body is straight as a board. You do not want to be tilted back or tilted forward at all, just nice and straight and then you are going to slowly lift your leg off the ground right like that. So I am only lifting my leg about a foot off the ground and I am not coming all the way up this as far as I can like that just nice and low. You can hold up when you get to the top for about 3-5 seconds if you want to, again nice and up right. You don't want be rolling backwards, rolling forwards then you are kind of cheating and using other muscles and you can also get an ankle weight and put around your ankle if it is a little easy for you. "