![]() Many medical doctors will tell a patient with a broken coccyx that there is nothing that they can do for the injury. A broken tailbone can take one year to fully heal, yet the pain and disability associated with it might last forever. Sometimes the patient will say they heard or felt a snap and knew instantly it was broken. A fractured (broken) tailbone is where the bone actually breaks. There are three major injuries that can result when the coccyx is injured. ![]() Often sexual intercourse is painful or impossible. Sometimes the patient can’t ride in a car, or even lie in bed without terrible tailbone pain. Coccyx pain is usually felt when sitting and when getting up from a sitting position. Sometimes there is no injury and coccyx pain is the result of stress. The most common injuries seen to the tailbone result from giving birth, slipping and falling, tobogganing, falling down stairs, riding a bumpy snowmobile or jet-ski, sitting on a hard chair or stool, riding on an uncomfortable bicycle seat, or participating in certain sexual positions that put the coccyx in a vulnerable position where it is prone to trauma. Because the coccyx is such a small bone and isn’t very well protected by muscle or fat, it is very vulnerable to injury. Pain in the coccyx is known as “coccygodynia” or “coccydynia”. Because humans no longer required a tail it gradually turned into what we now refer to as a “tailbone” or coccyx. If we were still in our more primitive evolutionary state the coccyx would be our tail. At the very bottom tip of the sacrum is the coccyx. After the lumbar spine (lower back) is the large bone called the sacrum. The coccyx is the small bone (actually a few small bones fused together) at the very base of the spine.
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