Tailbone Pain Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

The sacroiliac joint connects to many ligaments and muscles in the lower back hip and pelvic floor.
Tailbone pain pelvic floor dysfunction. Coccyx dysfunction is often the root cause to low back and pelvic pain. Symptoms vary by the type of disorder. Our certified pelvic floor therapists can assess the tailbone using a combination of internal and external pelvic floor techniques. A pelvic floor p t.
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. In fact in our current practice 80 of our patients that complain of pelvic pain have coccyx dysfunction as part of their root cause. Including pelvic floor muscle spasms that may.
If the fall was bad enough that you still remember it it may have been enough to start a chain of dysfunction. There are many potential causes for coccydynia. Childbirth is another common trauma for the tailbone and pelvic floor. These disorders can be embarrassing to discuss may be hard to diagnosis and often have a negative effect on quality of life.
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. 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. A fall onto the tailbone even in childhood can result in tailbone pain or pelvic floor dysfunction later in life.