Symptoms vary by the type of disorder.
Tailbone pain pelvic floor dysfunction.
The realization that my problem was a muscle spasm in a particularly unfortunate location was shocking but also truly eye opening and a huge relief.
If the fall was bad enough that you still remember it it may have been enough to start a chain of dysfunction.
Our certified pelvic floor therapists can assess the tailbone using a combination of internal and external pelvic floor techniques.
In these cases the tailbone is often not even painful to palpation however if you were to palpate one of the adjacent pelvic floor muscles attaching to the coccyx e g.
Si joint tailbone pain sacroiliac joint dysfunction also known as sijd or si joint pain is a condition in which the sacroiliac joint in the pelvis moves either too much or too little resulting in pain and often instability of the pelvic girdle.
A fall onto the tailbone even in childhood can result in tailbone pain or pelvic floor dysfunction later in life.
Childbirth is another common trauma for the tailbone and pelvic floor.
Coccyx dysfunction is often the root cause to low back and pelvic pain.
Including pelvic floor muscle spasms that may.
There are many potential causes for coccydynia.
Coccygeus iliococcygeus pubococcygeus there is tenderness hypertonus and trigger points that may even directly reproduce the tailbone pain.
The sacroiliac joint connects to many ligaments and muscles in the lower back hip and pelvic floor.
In fact in our current practice 80 of our patients that complain of pelvic pain have coccyx dysfunction as part of their root cause.
Can often be extremely helpful with a variety of conditions including some forms of urinary incontinence pelvic floor sagging prolapse vaginal muscle pain during sexual intercourse various pelvic floor muscle spasms tightness etc.
Pelvic floor physical therapists treat a wide array of conditions including bladder and or bowel incontinence bladder urgency painful intercourse and just plain pelvic pain to name just a few.
