Just this week, our medical article was published on the topic of a chiropractic actuator (also called an actuator gun or activator gun) being used to apply force to the coccyx (tailbone), resulting in new-onset tailbone pain.
ABSTRACT:
- Coccyx pain (also called coccydynia, or tailbone pain) has a broad range of etiologies, including traumatic and non-traumatic causes.
- Iatrogenic etiologies of coccydynia are rarely reported.
- This is the first report of iatrogenic coccydynia due to the use of a chiropractic actuator.
- An actuator (also known as an activator adjusting instrument, actuator gun or activator gun) is a spring-loaded hand-held device that delivers a sudden mechanical force to the anatomic site where it is applied.
- We report a patient whose neck and shoulder pain were assumed to be due to cranio-dural stress syndrome.
- An actuator was used to deliver forces to the coccyx region in hopes that relieving dural tension at the coccyx might improve her neck pain, which it did not.
- Upon receiving the actuator treatments to her coccyx, she had immediate onset of coccyx pain, which lasted for many months.
- The patient had no prior history of coccyx symptoms or trauma.
- She eventually presented for treatment at our Coccyx Pain Center, on an academic medical school campus.
- Actuator use at the coccyx should be added to the list of causes of tailbone pain.
- Patients and clinicians should be aware of this risk.
The full article is available for free online here:
http://www.webmedcentral.com/wmcpdf/Article_WMC004998.pdf
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His personable, private-practice office is located on a modern, renowned, academic medical school campus, at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
For an appointment, call 973-972-2802.
https://tailbonedoctor.com/
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