Coccyx Dislocations and Fractures can BOTH be a cause for Tailbone Pain, (Coccyx Pain, Coccydynia).
Coccyx DISLOCATIONS are ~ 100 x more common than Coccyx FRACTURES.
Dislocations = due to sprained or torn ligaments.
Fractures = a break in the actual bones.
The VAST majority of the time when a new patient tells me that their prior x-rays or MRI showed a fracture… I look at the images and it is NOT a fracture, it is a dislocation. This mistake happens all the time at the coccyx, whether it was misinterpreted by the Emergency Room doctor, the musculoskeletal doctor, the pain specialist (if any of them actually even looked at the images themselves) and by the Radiologists (who really should know better). Part of the problem is that even doctors have the misunderstanding that it is a tailBONE (which sounds singular, as if there is only one single bone at the coccyx)… so when they see separate bits of bone then incorrectly assume that it used to be one solid singular fused bone that fractured (when usually it is multiple individual boneS, plural).
COME FOR RELIEF: For more information on coccyx pain, or to be evaluated in-person by Dr. Foye’s Coccyx Pain Center in the United States, go to: www.TailboneDoctor.com
– Patrick Foye, M.D., Director of the Tailbone Pain Center, New Jersey, United States.
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.
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