Tailbone Injury
Tailbone injury is the most common cause of tailbone pain among the patients that have consulted us.
Tailbone injury is usually caused by a specific event (traumatic force) that leads immediately to pain sensation or severe discomfort around the tailbone area. Most tailbone pain sufferers can recall the specific cause of their injury or a bruised buttocks area. Sometimes, they experience difficulty sitting from a few hours to a few weeks, following a tailbone injury.
Traumatic injury of tailbone can affect most ages. In our practice, we have observed the effects of physical tailbone trauma on teenagers to the elderly.
If you are a parent or guardian of a teenager who is complaining of tailbone pain, you have a great responsibility to have your loved one get the proper diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible. The earlier the symptoms of a teenager’s tailbone injury is diagnosed, the easier it can be treated without complication. The delay in treatment might lead to complications.
The extent of a physical traumatic injury of the tailbone area can vary, based on many factors, such as:
- direction and angle of traumatic physical force
- acceleration of traumatic physical force
- mass associated with traumatic physical force
- strength of the surrounding muscles
Here is a list of activities reported by tailbone sufferers that caused their tailbone pain or injury: ( This list is provided to help you jog your memory to report the possible cause(s) of your tailbone pain to your doctor.)
- Auto Accident, rear-end collision
- Auto Accident, vertical fall from a cliff
- Bowel movement (BM) during severe constipation
- Chair pulled out from behind causing a fall on the buttocks
- Child birth (vaginal) delivery
- Dead-lifting of heavy weights or barbells
- Fall on the buttocks down the stairs or ladders
- Fall on the buttocks during Cheerleading Stunts
- (Throw & catch or Pyramids)
- Fall on the buttocks during football
- Fall on the buttocks during gymnastics on a balance beam
- Fall on the buttocks during ice skating
- Fall on the buttocks during roller blading or in-line skating
- Fall on the buttocks during roller skating
- Fall on the buttocks during skiing
- Fall on the buttocks during snow boarding
- Fall on the buttocks from a swing
- Fall on the buttocks in a bath tub
- Fall on the buttocks in a bathroom
- Fall on the buttocks on a frozen sidewalk
- Fall on the buttocks on a oily or greased floor
- Fall on the buttocks while skate boarding
- Horseback riding or falling from a horse
- Martial Art accidental contact with buttocks
- Sexual intercourse
- Sexual Anal intercourse
- Sitting in a motor boat during a bumpy ride
- Slip and fall on a hard slippery/wet tile floor
- Slip and fall on ice
- Sports injury, accidental kick in the buttocks
- Straddle injury on a fence top or tree limb
- Water slide drops and jumps
- Fall from a Ladder or Stool on Buttocks)
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