The Top 3 Best Strategies for Draining a Baker’s Cyst

Today let’s cover the “Top 3 Best Strategies for Draining a Baker’s Cyst.” Draining a Baker’s Cyst can be a little tricky however the ultimate goal is to relieve the pain and discomfort from the baker’s cyst and make sure it never comes back…

First Strategy: Aspiration with a Needle

By far the fastest and most common strategy for draining a baker’s cyst is aspiration. This is where your doctor with insert a needle directly into the baker’s cyst and draw out the fluid building up causing pressure and the cyst behind your knee to swell.

The great part about this approach is the cyst will reduce in size and the pressure will be relieved very quickly. This is definitely an advantage of using aspiration/a needle to relieve a baker’s cyst.

The downside of this approach is the underlying pattern which has caused the baker’s cyst to form has NOT be addressed and many times the baker’s cyst will swell back up like it did before.

The following is a video of a medical doctor draining a Baker’s Cyst from the back of a man’s left leg.

Be prepared! This is not for queasy stomachs

Second Strategy: Surgery to Remove the Baker’s Cyst

The strategy most often used when a baker’s cyst has been drained several times and returned over and over is having surgery to remove the baker’s cyst.

An advantage of this approach is the baker’s cyst is immediately gone and most likely will never come back, however, now dealing with the aftermath of the surgery, anesthesia, potential infection and recovery can be a little tricky.

The following is a video of a baker’s cyst being removed from the back of a knee.

Third Strategy: Getting the Body to Drain the Baker’s Cyst on It’s Own, Naturally…

Before I share a natural approach to relieving a baker’s cyst. It’s important to understand that your body has the infinite capacity to heal itself. If your body is NOT draining the baker’s cyst on it’s own, then we must looking at the body on a deeper level.

Think of your body like a river. When water flows freely, the river cleans itself out. When there are logs, sticks, leaves and rocks in the river, the ability of water to flow freely in inhibited.

Your body functions in the very same way. Instead of the logs, sticks, leaves and rocks; your body has diet, stress, tension, and lack of hydration.

Each of these factors contribute in it’s own way to “clog” your body’s ability to clean itself out.

In the case of a baker’s cyst, there is too much “clogging” taking place in the back of the knee forming the baker’s cyst.

From a natural approach we need to look at these different factors to begin setting up the conditions so your body is able to resolve the baker’s cyst on it’s own. Think of unclogging a drain, when you do, the baker’s cyst will magically drain on it’s own!

Of course, the is a reasonable amount of “trial and error” to figure out what the right combination and how much of each factor to unlock the key to your baker’s cyst. But when you do, you’ll discover how amazing your body is at healing itself.

There’s very little downside getting your baker’s cyst to heal on its own and you develop tools and skills along the way that will last a lifetime!

Bill is “The Knee Pain Guru” and “The Best in the World at Eliminating Knee Pain without Drugs, Shots or Surgery.”

He has over 34 years of martial art and body work experience understanding movement and tensions patterns that lead to physical pain.

Bill’s believes the nervous system is the key to the body’s healing and the bridges the gap between what we currently know and the infinite possibilities of what we don’t know yet how the body can heal itself. Coupled with comfort this combination creates the shortest distance between a life riddled with pain to a physical life fully mobile and self expressed.

“You can’t think your way out of pain. Pain is not rational and doesn’t care what you think. You must feel your way out of pain through comfort. Through the weeks, months and years of injury and compensation patterns built up in your body limiting your movement and making you feel older than your years.”

His unique ability of identifying the blocks that keep people stuck in pain and skillfully removing them allows for lasting change and a new reality for his clients…