Tailbone pain is frustrating! Suffering with pain day after day, week after week, month after month is incredibly frustrating. Life can start to revolve around the pain and how to avoid it: Where can I sit? What seats or couches do I need to avoid? Oh no, I forgot or lost my cushion… how am […]
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Tailbone pain (also called coccyx pain, or coccydynia) sometimes requires surgical treatment. Surgery to remove the coccyx is called coccygectomy. Fortunately, the vast majority of people with tailbone pain respond well to non-surgical treatment, such as the use of cushions, medications by mouth, and coccyx injections. For those uncommon cases where the tailbone needs to […] How do you know if your pain is coming from something OTHER than the tailbone (coccyx)? Or, if you do have tailbone pain (coccyx pain), how do you know if you ALSO have pain coming from other causes? In general, each person needs to work closely with their treating physicians to try to determine where […] I am honored and excited to be part of the first ever medical conference dedicated solely to problems of the coccyx (tailbone), such as coccyx pain (tailbone pain, coccydynia). For more information, go to: http://www.pariscoccyx2016.com/
PARIS SYMPOSIUM ON COCCYX DISORDERS ORGANISED BY JEAN-YVES MAIGNE & LEVON DOURSOUNIAN PARIS, 2016 JULY 8-9 […] If an MRI shows that there is a lumbar disc herniation, could this be the cause of your tailbone pain? Usually not. Lumbar disc “abnormalities” “Abnormalities” in the lumbar discs are very very commonly seen on MRI studies. Sometimes these abnormal-looking discs may cause symptoms such as low back pain or nerve pain that travels […] You may be wondering… “If I have tailbone pain, why not just have it surgically removed? Why bother trying non-surgical approaches?” Why not just remove the tailbone right off the bat for people having tailbone pain? My answer would be that the vast majority of patients do well with milder and easier treatments. The milder […] At the time of surgery to remove the coccyx (coccygectomy), it is somewhat variable what the surgeon does. Sometimes the tailbone is partially removed, sometimes completely removed. Surgeons differ in their opinions as to how important it is or isn’t to try to re-attach the pelvic floor tendons that were previously attached to the […] When there is skin breakdown of ulceration of the skin over the coccyx, it is worth looking for a cause. Sometimes people develop a bed-sore of the skin behind the sacrum and coccyx after spending too much time laying in bed. (The medical term for a bedsore is a “decubitus ulcer”.) Usually, a bedsore […] MRI studies of the tailbone show lots of details of the anatomy of the coccyx region. But the doctor needs to know which images to look at for the different types of details that can be seen. T-1 images are best for looking at bony structures like the actual bones of the tailbone (coccyx). T-2 […] After coccygectomy (surgical removal of the tailbone) as a treatment for tailbone pain (coccyx pain), should patients worry about whether sex will be painful? I don’t know any published research on this one way or the other, but for patients I have treated after they have had coccygectomy, I don’t recall many that have reported […] |
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