|
Chronic Coccyx Pain
Chronic Coccyx Pain DiagnosisPain from an injury will heal. If the pain continues long term, the injury is often blamed for creating scar tissue or some other physical defect. Most often, this is simply not the case and the injury has merely acted as a trigger for a psychosomatic pain syndrome to begin.If there is severe pain, but no sign of coccyx injury, the pain is often blamed on sacroiliac joint dysfunction and/or piriformis syndrome. Once again, these conditions rarely cause severe pain and are 2 of the recently popularized scapegoats on which many physicians blame idiopathic back pain. Chronic Tailbone Pain FactsThe coccyx is a common site for spinal surgery. Repair or removal of the tailbone is a normal procedure for complaints involving long term coccyx pain. These surgeries show mediocre to poor results for lasting pain relief. Many patients experience a placebo cure and simply develop back pain substitute symptoms in another location of the spine or body. Other patients continue to have perceived tailbone pain, even after the coccyx has been surgically removed! This is a sure indication of some psychological process causing the chronic back pain.Recommendation on Chronic Coccyx PainI know that pain in the tailbone really hurts. I have suffered with several coccyx bruises incurred from martial arts training. I also remember hurting my tailbone as a child and suffering pain for many months. Luckily, my pain completely resolved itself with no treatment. If you are experiencing long lasting coccyx pain which has proven to be resistant to many treatments, it is time to consider the chance that your pain is actually psychosomatic. In this case, a cure is easy to enact once you discover, acknowledge and accept the causative emotions behind the symptoms. Once you have accomplished this, coccyx pain will no longer be a literal pain in your butt…
|
