Privacy Policy Notice of Non-Discrimination. Search form Search. Facebook YouTube Instagram. Coccyx Fracture. You are here Home Share. Your doctor may recommend several ways to alleviate inflammation and pain, including: Positioning.
When sitting, lean forward to distribute more of your weight over your legs. Try a doughnut-shaped cushion or child's inner tube in the seat of your chair.
When lying on your back, place pillows under your legs. When lying on your side in bed, a pillow can be placed between the legs for comfort. Surgery for a traumatic coccyx injury may be indicated if there is no response to the above treatments. Tailbone Coccyx Fracture Your tailbone coccyx is the bone at the very end of your spine. Risk factors Women are more likely to injure their tailbones than men. When to go to the Emergency Room ER Tailbone injuries are likely to cause pain, swelling, and bruising.
X-rays may be taken to check the extent of the injury. You may be given medicine to ease discomfort. These steps may be recommended for the first few days or weeks after your injury:. For pain, you can use ibuprofen Advil, Motrin, and others or naproxen Aleve, Naprosyn, and others. You can buy these medicines without a prescription.
It may be painful to go to the bathroom. Eat plenty of fiber and drink plenty of fluids to avoid constipation. Use stool softener medicine if needed. You can buy stool softeners at the drugstore. As your pain goes away, you can begin light physical activity. Slowly increase your activities, such as walking and sitting. You should:. Your provider may not need to follow-up if the injury is healing as expected. If the injury is more severe, you will likely need to see the provider.
Pelvic trauma. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; chap Cusack S, Pelvic injuries. Being overweight or obese can place excess pressure on your coccyx when you're sitting down. This can cause coccydynia or make existing coccydynia worse. You may also develop coccydynia if you are very slim.
If this is the case, you may not have enough buttock fat to prevent your coccyx from rubbing against the tissues surrounding it. You can use the body mass index BMI calculator to find out whether you are a healthy weight for your height.
As we grow older the small discs of cartilage a tough, flexible tissue that help hold the coccyx in place can wear down. The bones that make up the coccyx can also become more tightly fused together. This can place more stress on the coccyx, leading to pain. Rarely, an infection can occur in the base of the spine or soft tissue and cause coccydynia, such as a pilonidal abscess a painful collection of pus that usually develops in the cleft of the buttocks.
A rare cause of coccydynia is cancer.
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