Baker's Cyst (first post on forum!)

[tjh315]

#2671

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/bakers-cyst/basics/definition/con-20023332

I am 99% sure that my right knee has a baker’s cyst. It is not chronic (all day)……but seems to flare up early in class and limits ability to do Standing Bow. Never been what I would call painful, just very tight.
Question: has anyone out there suffered with a baker’s cyst…….and do you have any recommendations for me? (recently lost 10lbs and my practice has never been better!!)

[Gabrielle (The Hot Yoga Doctor)]

#11158

Hi TJ and welcome to the forum

Just so I don’t make the wrong assumptions, are you saying that it is when your right leg is lifted that you are unable to do Standing Bow and it’s not the standing leg? Can you tell me at what point of the pose you feel the problem? (Eg on grabbing the right foot? Or as soon as you start kicking/charging/whatever it is that you do? Or something else!)

You specifically only mention that pose. Are there really no other poses with which you have difficulty? If there are, then I really would like to know.

Namaste
Gabrielle 🙂

[tjh315]

#21286

G, apologies for the VERY LATE reply. Standing Leg is the problem with the Baker’s Cyst. It can be either leg. It starts to ‘fill’ during dandayamana janushirasana (standing head to knee). I do NOT do a FULL pose, just stand and hold my foot.

By the time Standing Bow begins, the cyst is debilitating. Kind of like a small golf ball on the back of my knee/leg. Massaging seems to help a little. It forces me to 1. approach standing bow extra slow, 2. not go as far as I normally can and would like to, 3. really concentrate on kicking my leg up before charging forward.

If it looks like I may have solved my own problem……..:)

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