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Suggest Treatment For Severe Tailbone Pain

Whenever I lay down on my back my tailbone starts to hurt. When I try to sit up or roll over it hurt while I m doing it but doesn t hurt when I m actually up or on my side. Im a 19 year old female who has worked out and played sports my whole life so I m not over weight. This has been going on for the past 2 months. What is causing this and how do I fix it?
Mon, 6 Apr 2015
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Here if you have pain only at your tail bone and there is no numbness or tingling pain in legs then we use to call it coccydynia. And the cause of this pain could be stress on the bone due to prolong sitting, fall on tail bone, or hair line crack followed by fall or too much stress on it.
Treatment is very simple. As conservative management it has to be treated with physiotheray ultrasound treatment with postural advice as well advice to use coccydynia supportive ring. This is basically filled with air so when person sits on it more weight will ho to buttock then the tail bone.
With severe pain due to coccydynia can be treated by giving steroid injection along with conservative management.
You can also use hot pack and cold pack to relieve the pain. And one exercise that is sleep on your tommy and tight your buttocks for 5-10 seconds to hold and relax. For very severe pain one x ray and consultation with orthopedic also should be done.
Take care.
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Suggest Treatment For Severe Tailbone Pain

Here if you have pain only at your tail bone and there is no numbness or tingling pain in legs then we use to call it coccydynia. And the cause of this pain could be stress on the bone due to prolong sitting, fall on tail bone, or hair line crack followed by fall or too much stress on it. Treatment is very simple. As conservative management it has to be treated with physiotheray ultrasound treatment with postural advice as well advice to use coccydynia supportive ring. This is basically filled with air so when person sits on it more weight will ho to buttock then the tail bone. With severe pain due to coccydynia can be treated by giving steroid injection along with conservative management. You can also use hot pack and cold pack to relieve the pain. And one exercise that is sleep on your tommy and tight your buttocks for 5-10 seconds to hold and relax. For very severe pain one x ray and consultation with orthopedic also should be done. Take care.