Such a Pain in the Rear!
Posted on April 3, 2008
Filed Under back pain |
It seems odd, but humans have a bone at the end of the spine we call a tailbone. The medical name is the coccyx. When it hurts, it can really hurt because it makes it tough to sit. Usually, this bone hurts because you’ve injured it somehow. In fact, a lot of people injure the coccyx and don’t even know how. It just suddenly starts hurting. But the most frequent cause of injury to this particular bone is a fall on your rear.
Unfortunately, doctors usually don’t see much on X-rays if anything at all. Injury to the coccyx may hurt a lot, but it’s rarely serious. The worst part can be the pain around the area of this virtually useless bone. The only treatments include not sitting (duh!) on anything hard or taking some kind of anti-inflammatory medicine. If you take care not to sit on the bone for a while, the pain usually goes away. You can sit on a “donut” cushion to take the pressure off your rear.
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