Knee swelling in back of knee / backer cyst treatment/ what is knee swelling

Sometime we notice there is a swelling in the back position of the knee. This is known as baker cyst. Baker cyst is water filled cyst in the back part of the knee. Patient complaints of some heaviness in the knee and sometimes pain is also there usually bassist happens in the forties to 50 years of age because this is not very serious and it can be treated very easily. Most of the time we just require painkillers to settle the pain sometime you need needle aspiration for the bakes, rarely we require surgery for the Bakers