Tailbone pain

tailbone pain, also known as Coccydynia or Coccygodynia is most common after a fall or childbirth

Your tailbone is connected to your sacrum, and during childbirth, the sacrum moves like a garage door to open up your pelvis and make space for the baby. While this is how it should work, it doesn't always go smoothly, and some people have a more inwardly curved anatomy, making tailbone injuries more likely. These injuries can be a real pain in the...well, tailbone! But don’t worry, pelvic floor physical therapy will help you get past any pain or discomfort and back to feeling great.

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Our Doctors of Physical Therapy will direclty assess your tailbone, pelvis and all possible contributing factors in a thorough evaluation to find the root cause of your symptoms. They will then create a treatment plan specific to you to lead you towards symptom relief.

A typical treatment for tailbone pain could include

  • Manual therapy can include myofascial release and visceral releases direct to your low back, SI, tailbone and any contributing area to help reduce pain and tension and improve tissue length

  • You will be prescribed specific exercises to help improve mobility where you lack it and decrease your specific pain

  • Our goal is to improve your overall awareness of you pelvic floor and all parts of you body that contribute to it. We will help improve your strength deficits, motor coordination, timing and empower you to feel confident and pain free with all of your daily tasks and workouts

  • Our therapists will educate you on their findings and help you fully understand not only what is going on with your body but also what you can do to help reduce your symptoms

  • If we have inappropriate pressure management strategies, meaning, we bear down, breath hold and maintain improper alignment especially when lifting then we could be overloading our pelvic floor resulting pain and tightness

  • Dry needling directly to the tailbone can be a very effective way of immediately reducing pain! Click here to learn more about what Dry Needling is.