After months of very little exercise, you decide to go for a long run. After a mile, you start to feel pain in your kneecap area. What could explain this?
What will be an ideal response
Muscle tone is very important for stabilizing the knee joint. The long time off allowed the muscles whose tendons span the knee joint to weaken and lose that stabilizing force. Running should stop until the muscles can be reconditioned. Then the distance should be short at first and increased incrementally.
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a. true b. false
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