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Methods: Twenty-eight sedentary women aged 44.5 \u00b1 8.5 years were recruited. They performed three exercises with and without hip adduction. Surface electromyography (sEMG) activity was measured on the rectus femoris (RF), vastus medialis oblique (VMO) and vastus lateralis (VL) muscles. The levels of sEMG activities of the three muscles were compared among the six exercises using a repeated-measures ANOVA. Results: The findings showed that RF activity was lowest during the SQ alone and highest during the SLR exercise (p &lt; 0.05 to 0.001). The VMO activity was significantly greater in the SQH than in the five types of exercises (p &lt; 0.05 to 0.001), which led to a significant VMO\/VL ratio as well. VL activity increased while the squat with hip adduction and knee extension with hip adduction exercise compared with SQ alone. Conclusion: This study indicates that a closed-chain squat with hip co-contraction can produce the VMO and VMO\/VL ratio activity, while an open chain of SLR better activates the RF activity. The findings support the understanding of quadriceps activity in different exercises to be an alternative home-based exercise for physical therapy in women facing muscle weakness.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph191912929","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,9]],"date-time":"2022-10-09T20:49:31Z","timestamp":1665348571000},"page":"12929","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Quadriceps Electromyographic Activity in Closed and Open Kinetic-Chain Exercises with Hip-Adductor Co-Contraction in Sedentary Women"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Parinyathip","family":"Thongduang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center in Back, Neck, Other Joint Pain and Human Performance (BNOJPH), Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand"},{"name":"School of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Uraiwan","family":"Chatchawan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center in Back, Neck, Other Joint Pain and Human Performance (BNOJPH), Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand"},{"name":"School of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rungthip","family":"Puntumetakul","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center in Back, Neck, Other Joint Pain and Human Performance (BNOJPH), Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand"},{"name":"School of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Junichiro","family":"Yamauchi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center in Back, Neck, Other Joint Pain and Human Performance (BNOJPH), Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand"},{"name":"Graduate School of Human Health Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo 191-0065, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Punnee","family":"Peungsuwan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center in Back, Neck, Other Joint Pain and Human Performance (BNOJPH), Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand"},{"name":"School of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"B481","DOI":"10.1093\/gerona\/55.10.B481","article-title":"Quadriceps muscle function in relation to habitual physical activity and VO2max in men and women aged more than 65 years","volume":"55","author":"Kostka","year":"2000","journal-title":"J. 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