If your knees are loose and wobbly and it is not a matter of your muscles you need to see a doctor. Doing knee strengthening exercises when you have injured or torn tendons can make your condition worse. If your weak knees are a matter of weak leg muscles then yes, walking, running, biking, jumping rope, walking up steps can help you with building muscle tone.
So you need to find out for sure why your knees are wobbly. Nothing but surgery will fix a torn ACL or torn cartilage and it is not advisable to train in martial arts with a torn ACL or torn cartilage without repairing the damage first.
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