How to Tell if You Have Tailbone Pain (Coccyx Pain)

Series Summary

A healthy body should be a top priority in everyone's life regardless of their age or physical state. Keeping healthy means exercising, eating right and monitoring general health with yearly physicals. Avoiding unhealthy habits, such as smoking or eating poorly, can improve general health and long-term health issues. Home remedies and basic health knowledge play roles in keeping a family free from taking too many trips to the hospital or doctor's office, as well as from having to face high medical bills and repeated accidents. In this free video series, a chiropractor provides information on treatments for a number of different ailments. Find out how to treat back pain, broken tailbones and shin splints. Learn the pressure points of the neck, tips to stop smoking and symptoms of restless leg syndrome. Stay healthy and free of pain with these health remedies.

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Doctor Kim Makoi. I'm a holistic chiropractor from San Francisco, California, and this is how to tell if you have tailbone pain. First of all, you should know what your tailbone is. It's...the other name for the tailbone is the coccyx, and it's this teeny-tiny bone right at the end of this larger, triangular bone in your lower back called the sacrum. So, most of the time that coccyx is injured due to hard falls onto your butt, most of the time on the slippery ice, things like that. And, most of the time, you will have no doubt that you injured your tailbone, because it'll be a very distinct, sharp pain right there, and it'll hurt mostly when you're sitting. Other ways that tailbones can be injured are actually more subtle ways. If you notice you've been having some pain around the tailbone area since starting to wear certain tight fitting girdles with little thong attachments, that's actually a common source of tailbone injury due to the constant pressure on the tailbone, especially in people with sensitive or loose ligaments. And that's how you know if you have tailbone pain."