Tailbone pain? Do these two exercises

Sometimes the pain department encounters such patients: "Hello, please sit down", the doctor politely asks the patient to sit down. The patient waved his hand, "No, doctor, my butt hurts when it touches the stool!" After the doctor examined and took an X-ray, the diagnosis was coccyx pain. Today, the pain department doctor will teach you two sets of exercises to relieve coccyx pain.

To avoid coccyx involvement

Do this action less often

The characteristic of coccygealgia is that the tail pain is felt when sitting for too long or standing up from a sitting position, or the local pain is aggravated when the tip of the tail is squeezed.

One point that needs to be emphasized is that daily prevention is very important if you want to eradicate coccyx pain.

Pay attention to calcium supplementation in your diet to avoid local strain and fasciitis caused by osteoporosis. The most important point is to avoid lying half-back on the sofa or sitting in one position for a long time, because this will cause damage to the coccyx beyond its recovery ability, leading to repeated attacks of coccyx pain.

In addition, coccyx pain, like cervical and lumbar pain, can be relieved and treated through massage, hot compresses, and Kinesiology taping.

Different causes

Treatment varies

The treatment of coccyx pain is also divided into four treatment measures according to different causes:

Patients with coccyx fracture and dislocation caused by trauma should of course go to the hospital and follow the coccyx fracture and dislocation treatment. In addition, they can also be combined with appropriate postoperative physical therapy and rehabilitation exercises.

Patients with chronic strain can rest in prone or side-lying position for 2 to 3 weeks, or they can lie on their backs. When sitting, use an air ring and take a hot water bath 2 to 3 times a day to relieve anal muscle spasms. Most patients can recover within 1 to 3 months.

However, people are different from each other, and some patients may have coccyx pain for a long time. In this case, the patient can be treated by not bearing weight on the coccyx for 3 to 6 months until the pressure is pain-free before bearing weight in a sitting position. If the coccyx is allowed to bear weight too early, the symptoms are likely to recur.

When the coccyx pain point is clear, you can go to the hospital pain department to consult whether local anti-inflammatory analgesic solution or ozone injection treatment is feasible. Acupuncture and silver needle release are also optional methods. In addition, the latest platelet-rich plasma therapy can promote the growth and healing of fractured or dislocated coccyx by injecting plasma rich in growth factors into the injured area, thereby achieving the purpose of eradicating pain.

If the pain of intractable coccyx pain persists and does not ease, you should go to the hospital to consult a doctor whether coccyx resection is feasible. Routine local anti-inflammatory analgesic injection treatment before surgery has good analgesic effect and good surgical effect. Otherwise, you should consider whether you have a lumbar sacral disease that compresses the nerve roots and causes coccyx pain.

Try these two moves

Can relieve pain

I recommend two sets of exercises to everyone, which are very effective in relieving coccyx pain.

Movement: Put your feet together, and keep your toes, inner sides of your feet, and heels as close together as possible to activate the strength of your inner thighs; straighten your knees, lift your knees, pull your buttocks down, and pull up the muscles on the back of your thighs; slightly retract your abdomen, straighten your chest, stretch your spine upward, and straighten your neck; the weight of your body should not be placed only on your heels and toes, but should be evenly distributed.

Action 2: Sit on the ground, with your back against the wall, stretch your legs and feet forward and close together, put your hands on both sides of your body, bend your knees and bring your feet back, with your soles facing each other, your heels as close to the inner thighs near the perineum as possible, and your toes facing forward; hold your feet with both hands, straighten your waist, look forward, and bounce your legs up and down like a butterfly; press your knees with both hands and take a deep breath, use the strength of your elbows to press your legs flat on the ground as much as possible, and hold for about 10 breaths while contracting the perineum. Then, return to the initial position.