Often due to childbirth.
Pelvic floor and tailbone pain.
Hypertonus and protective guarding may be felt when palpating adjacent pelvic floor muscles such as the coccygeus and levator ani.
It may happen if you fall backward or get hurt while playing sports like skating and gymnastics.
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.
Tailbone pain can result from bruising dislocation or a broken bone caused by a trauma or injury.
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.
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.
Having said that when it comes to focal tailbone pain the benefit or lack thereof of any given treatment probably depends most on the underlying cause or condition.
This is intermittent but may last for days in certain cases.
The sacrococcygeal sacrotuberous and sacrospinous must also be individually evaluated for tenderness.
Falls and other traumas can bruise dislocate or break your tailbone.
The sacroiliac joint connects to many ligaments and muscles in the lower back hip and pelvic floor.
Ask the client to report any palpation maneuver that reproduces the tailbone pain.
Limited mobility of the coccyx causes the tailbone to just outward when sitting and can put increased pressure on the bones and the sacrococcygeal joint.
Various pelvic floor muscle spasms tightness etc.
The pain may be vague or localize to the rectum anus rear of the pelvis or tailbone.
The pain may radiate to the tailbone hips or other nearby.
Limited coccyx movement may also result in pelvic floor muscle tension adding to the discomfort.
Including pelvic floor muscle spasms that may occur as a guarding reactive response because of tailbone pain and much more.
It is in cases like this that the pelvic floor muscles become tight which then pull on the tailbone and present as tailbone pain.
Too much mobility can also pull the pelvic floor muscles that attach to the coccyx resulting in tailbone and pelvic pain.
