We finished talking about all the specific type of injuries that we're going to cover in this course. But in this video, I want to mention one more concept, and that's fluid inside your knee. Fluid comes from inflammation, which as I mentioned in one of the earlier videos, is a natural bodily response to damage of one of the tissues or to some type of foreign invader like an infection. Now, if you have fluid in your knee, it means that the reaction of a of a damage it's not the injury itself. fluid is not an injury isn't itself. I've seen a number of patients in the clinic come in and saying, I have an injury to my knee.

I have a baker cyst. a cyst is just a pocket of fluid. And Baker cyst is fluid that that builds up in the back of the knee. But as I mentioned already, this isn't an injury rather, it's an to some other type of damage in your knee, it's important to find out where this damage is coming from. And to treat that damage, as opposed to just treating the fluid in the knee, which is a symptom of the damage, but not the not the disease itself. Now, you might have aspiration done where somebody, a doctor will stick a needle into the knee and take the fluid out.

And now it might cause relief in the short run. But if there's still a little bit of damage, it might continually continually make fluid. And this really won't help the problem. You need to tackle the problem itself and not just the symptom. I just wanted to mention that because that's an important distinguish, it's important to distinguish between the fluid and the injury, which the fluid is the result of that injury but not the injury itself. This concludes the chapter of different neat type different types of knee injury.

In the next chapter. We're going to talk a little bit, a little bit about imaging, and then we'll get on to the physical therapy, which is the And the most important part of this course