Tailbone Pain Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

Our certified pelvic floor therapists can assess the tailbone using a combination of internal and external pelvic floor.

Tailbone pain pelvic floor dysfunction. Pregnancy and childbirth can. Childbirth causes immense pressure around the pelvic area causing pain in the coccyx. These muscles look like a hammock or sling stretched from the tailbone at the back to the pubic bone in front and from one sitting bone to the other. In rare cases part of the sacrococcygeal joint may become dislocated at the front or back of the tailbone causing coccyx pain.

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. Can often be extremely helpful with a variety of conditions including some forms of. The sacroiliac joint connects to many ligaments and muscles in the lower back hip and pelvic floor. Although men do have pelvic floor disorders largely as a result of injury or surgery being a woman is the greatest risk factor for all the obvious female reasons.

In fact in our current practice 80 of our patients that complain of pelvic pain have coccyx dysfunction as part of their root cause. Typically this pain is worst when sitting or rising from a seated position and centered right between the sit bones. Working with a sensitized nervous system by erik dalton. Urinary incontinence pelvic floor sagging prolapse vaginal muscle pain during sexual intercourse.

Coccygeus iliococcygeus pubococcygeus there is tenderness hypertonus and trigger points that may even directly reproduce the tailbone pain. The pelvic floor consists of the muscles and tissues that support the pelvic organs including the uterus bladder bowel and rectum in women and the bladder bowel rectum and prostate in men. Coccyx dysfunction coccyx dysfunction is often the root cause to low back and pelvic pain. For pelvic floor pain and dysfunction there are a growing number of physical therapists who specialize in treating pelvic floor pain.

Using modalities such as massage manual manipulation psychotherapy and pelvic floor rehabilitation pain management researchers at the ochsner clinic foundation discovered that conservative treatment was successful in 90 percent of coccydynia cases 1 in some people with coccyx dysfunction the brain s alarm system is triggered. 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. Coccydynia tailbone pain signs. 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.

Limited coccyx movement may also result in pelvic floor muscle tension adding to the discomfort. 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. Coccydynia is the medical term for tailbone pain.