Kick Baker knee joint - treatment methods

The Baker's cyst of the knee or cyst of the popliteal fossa is a benign tumor-like formation localized in the popliteal fossa region, from the back of the knee. The article will deal with the factors that influence the development of Baker's disease and what methods of treatment exist.

Causes of development

The cause of the disease can be various diseases of the knee joint. The most common are:

- suffered joint trauma;

- damage to the articular cartilage;

- degenerative changes and meniscus lesions ;

- Synovitis of chronic form;

Osteoarthritis;

- patellofemoral arthrosis;

- osteoarthrosis;

- rheumatoid arthritis.

In some cases, the Baker's cyst of the knee joint may occur for no apparent reason.

Symptoms of the disease

With a visual examination, the cyst looks like a rounded seal in the popliteal fossa, to the touch - elastic, soft and dense. It is imperceptible when the knee is bent. More clearly manifested in the unbent state of the joint.

Internal sensations of the disease are expressed in a feeling of pressure, discomfort, sometimes accompanied by pain in the knee, difficulty in moving. When a tumor of considerable size is squeezed nerve trunks and adjacent vessels, which can lead to sensations of coldness of the skin of the limb below the knee, numbness, tingling. Appear edema and other symptoms of circulatory disorders.

Kick Baker knee joint can cause complications such as: thrombosis and thrombophlebitis of the deep veins of the limb, the development or complication of existing varicose veins, rupture of the wall of the cyst accompanied by severe pain, swelling, fever, redness of the back of the tibia.

Diagnostics

If you suspect a disease, you need to undergo a complete examination to determine the cause of the disease. In such cases, knee joint studies are performed by ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging. Also, an analysis is made by puncture (puncture of the tumor wall).

Kick Baker knee joint - treatment

Treatment of the cyst can be performed both conservatively and operatively. Tactics are determined by a doctor (surgeon or orthopedist).

Conservative treatment consists in the implementation of puncture formation with the help of a thick needle, further pumping out the contents of the joint and inserting anti-inflammatory drugs into the cavity (diprospan, kenalog, hydrocortisone and others). But this method of treatment does not always give the desired results, in most cases the disease, after opening and removing the contents, continues to recur.

The knee joint cyst, which is of considerable size and which can not be treated conservatively, must be treated promptly. It is more effective. It is the excision of the cyst by surgery.

The time of the excision is about 20 minutes with local anesthesia. After that, the patient is in the hospital for no more than 5 hours. After a week, the patient is allowed to walk fully, after 7 to 10 days - the removal of stitches, after which it is permitted to go to work. In the postoperative period, a gypsum or a tight bandage is applied to the knee area.

Kist Baker - treatment with folk methods

In the treatment of the disease by popular methods, the well-known Golden Sous has proved itself well . Plants will need the amount that is necessary to fill two 3-liter cans. It is necessary to finely chop the leaves, mustaches and stems of the plant, put in jars, pour vodka or diluted alcohol and insist for three weeks in a dark place.

The contents are then filtered and squeezed. The obtained squeezes and tincture should be placed in a cool place. Tincture take as a drink 2 - 3 times a day for two sips. Squeezes should be used as compresses.