Grab the seat of your chair to brace yourself and extend your legsstraight out in front of you so they are parallel to the floor, then release slowly to work out your muscles.
When asked why Mrs Richards was not in a splint with her legsstraight as instructed in her medical notes, the nurse said that was the position she had been left in by the ambulance staff who had just transferred her from the Royal Haslar Hospital in Gosport.