The symptoms of tailbone pain include pressure points or leg pain near the tailbone of the buttocks, including the tailbone, the levator ani muscle and the surrounding soft tissues. The ratio of male to female patients is two to six, and the age of the patients is not only for the elderly, but also from 10 to 70 years old.
How does tailbone pain occur?
People who sit in an incorrect position for a long time, who have had surgery on the perineum (between the anus and external genitalia) and the rectum, or who have had a dislocation or fracture of the coccyx can all suffer from coccygeal discomfort. For women, pain in the coccyx is caused by the special structure of the pelvis, or by direct pressure on the coccygeal nerve due to the large size of the fetus, which travels through the vagina during labor.
If you have been in an accident, such as falling off a bicycle or motorcycle, slipping, falling down a flight of stairs and hitting a step, or sustaining a sports injury, you may experience pain in your tailbone due to a direct impact on your tailbone.
Our tailbone fat layer is small, unlike the buttocks so "meat", fall "hard", the pain of periosteal injury is unbearable, and in case of periosteal soft tissue bleeding, coupled with the rehabilitation is not ideal, it is easy to turn into chronic Fibrositis, this pain is a long hand tail.
The above patients feel very uncomfortable if they stand or sit in a hard chair for too long, and must change their sitting position frequently to relieve the pain. When they get up from a chair, they will also experience sudden cramps, and when they ride a bicycle or motorcycle, the pain is even worse.
Chinese medicine practitioner Zeng Qingliang said that after the menopause, the bones of women begin to calcify and degenerate, which is also the cause of pain in the tailbone.
He said, "If the pain has a reflex to the nerves in the soles of the feet, this belongs to osteophytes, which press on the nerves and cause pain."
In the experience of Chinese medicine practitioners, if the treatment is done correctly, taking medication, along with physical therapy and other methods, the results are remarkable. Once three to six months of treatment have passed without much progress, surgery should be considered to avoid living with the pain.
He said, Chinese medicine emphasizes evidence-based treatment, if the patient belongs to the cold syndrome, the body is cold, you can use this treatment. If it is a joint heat syndrome, it is not suitable for such therapy. He suggested that people usually maintain good sitting posture to reduce the pressure on the spine and exercise more, which can reduce the chance of tailbone injury.
People with chronic tailbone pain, the most important thing is to minimize or avoid pressure on the affected area, usually sitting, you can set up a chair similar to a life preserver decompression cushion, to reduce the pressure on the affected area. This hollow design of the cushion can disperse the pressure on the tailbone and buttocks, so that the patient can sit for a longer period of time and work more easily.
At home, you should often apply hot compresses to the affected area, or have a Chinese medicine practitioner treat it with ultrasound to enhance blood circulation to the painful area and promote healing.