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.
Tailbone pain pelvic floor dysfunction.
If the fall was bad enough that you still remember it it may have been enough to start a chain of dysfunction.
Childbirth is another common trauma for the tailbone and pelvic floor.
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.
The sacroiliac joint connects to many ligaments and muscles in the lower back hip and pelvic floor.
Symptoms vary by the type of disorder.
A fall onto the tailbone even in childhood can result in tailbone pain or pelvic floor dysfunction later in life.
In fact in our current practice 80 of our patients that complain of pelvic pain have coccyx dysfunction as part of their root cause.
Coccygeus iliococcygeus pubococcygeus there is tenderness hypertonus and trigger points that may even directly reproduce the tailbone pain.
There are many potential causes for coccydynia.
Coccyx dysfunction is often the root cause to low back and pelvic pain.
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.
Pelvic floor dysfunction is a group of disorders that change the way people have bowel movements and sometimes cause pelvic 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.
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.
These disorders can be embarrassing to discuss may be hard to diagnosis and often have a negative effect on quality of life.