One surgical option for a ganglion cyst is to just use a hypodermic syringe with a big gauge needle and remove the fluid that way.
That's not full-blown surgery. That's a simple procedure.
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The traditional option is to hit it hard with something heavy (in days of old the family bible, nowadays what? the family x-box?) and rupture it. Both of these options will not need much recovery at all.
If the pounding of running doesn't rupture it, I doubt anything else will.
