Knee · Mid recovery
Straight Leg Raise with Weight
How to do it
Lie on your back with a weight strapped around your ankle, one knee bent and the other leg straight. Tighten your thigh muscle and lift the straight leg to the height of the bent knee, then lower back down with control.
- Body region
- Knee
- Position
- Supine
- Equipment
- Weight
- Recovery phase
- Mid recovery
- Purpose
- Strengthening
Used in home programs for
- ACL Reconstruction
- Knee Osteoarthritis
- Knee Replacement
- Meniscus Repair
- Partial Knee Replacement (Unicompartmental)
- Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome
Put this in a program
Clinicians build a printed or phone-delivered home exercise program from 831 photographed exercises. No account to build or print.
Add Straight Leg Raise with Weight to a program Open the builder
Related exercises
This page describes one exercise as it appears in the BoneArc library so a clinician can decide whether it belongs in a patient's program. It is not a prescription. Follow the plan your own clinician gave you.