The coccyx is the terminal part of the spine, consisting of several fused vertebrae. To our ancestors this body served as a mount of the tail, for a modern man, he became a vestige.
However, some illness and injuries do not allow you to forget about its existence: the pain and discomfort violate the usual rhythm of life, impossible to sit, walk and even sleep.
The origin of the pain is so diverse that often the patient themselves is unable to pinpoint their localization. Usually he is concerned about the heaviness, tingling or burning below the waist, near the tailbone.
Pain can be constant or occur periodically, could rise or fall, occur in certain situations and can manifest itself years.
The most common (especially in women) disease of the coccyx is called coccygodynia. It develops due to damage or inflammation in the lower vertebral Department.
The task for professionals is to recognize whether illness injury, coccygodynia or pain transmitted from neighboring organs. From accurate diagnosis of the disease depends on the efficiency of subsequent treatment.
Pain in the coccyx in different diseases
After injury
Damage to the coccyx usually delivers sharp and severe pain immediately after a fall or blow to the gluteal region.
The degree of pain depends on the nature of the injury – a bruise, a crack, a fracture or displacement, and increases with walking and prolonged sitting.
Often coccygeal pain are minor and disappear quickly, but suddenly returned after many months and even several years.
In a sitting position
Those who sits on the soft not to avoid a disease of the tailbone. In this case, the disturbed blood flow, there is stagnation and the result is the deposition of salts at the end vertebrae.
Occupational disease of the coccyx suffer cyclists and those engaged in equestrian sport. Constant load this kind lead to microcracks of the coccyx. Sitting athletes experience increasing pain.
And finally, the fatal cause of increase in pain when sitting – dermoid cyst. Is a congenital anomaly, consisting in the formation inside of the tailbone cavity with skin and hair.
Simultaneous pain in the lower back and tailbone (or sacrum)
In case of arthrosis, osteochondrosis, cysts in the lower back pain along the way covers the sacrum and the coccyx. This condition may experience hemorrhoids and rectal disease. The malaise is manifested in different ways: stinging, burning, distant tingling.
Pain when bending
Bending over a person may experience pain in the following chronic diseases:
- colitis;
- endometritis;
- adnexitis;
- cystitis;
- hemorrhoids.
Under the coccyx
Discomfort beneath the bone emerges from its old injuries, and when prolapse of the perineum, rectal diseases and after operations in the area of the anus.
Above the tailbone
The sacrum and coccyx are the bed of nerve endings of all the spinal cord. Therefore, the concern over the coccyx is typical of neurological disease (inflammation of the nerves in the lumbosacral region). The most common sciatica – a pinched sciatic nerve.
During pregnancy and after childbirth
A late-term pregnant women is a permutation of the pelvic organs as a preparation for labor. Coccygeal vertebrae in this time leaning back that causes a dull pain.
The pressure of growing up of the fetus and the displacement bodies may be sensitive to recall old injury to the coccyx. Pregnant women often experience pain in the coccyx banal deficiency of calcium in the bones.
Pain in the coccyx after birth, talking about birth injury: hemorrhage in the soft tissues around the coccyx or its deformation in the case of birth of a large baby.
Aching and nagging pains
Such feelings accompany inflammation of internal genital organs (both men and women) and spread to the whole of the lower part of the spine.
Pain in the coccyx in men
Long, regular riding bezrassadnym vehicles develops stiffness of the joint connecting the coccyx with the sacrum. The patient experiences severe discomfort when standing up and squatting.
In severe forms develops a cyst or inflammation of the pilonidal sinus. The inflammatory process often flows into the purulent stage, and then surgical intervention is inevitable.
In conclusion
Despite the rudimentary nature of coccygeal vertebrae play a very important role. Because they are directly connected with the core of the body – the spinal cord.
As you know, damage to any part of the system entails a breach of normal operation in General. For example, deformation of the coccyx often cause headaches, depression, neurosis.
The sacrum and coccyx are connected by soft tissue from all the organs of the urogenital system. Disease the coccyx, especially in adolescence, could lead to such troubles, like male infertility or reduced libido in women.
The obvious need for careful attention to any pain symptoms in the coccyx at any age.
When pain in the lower vertebrae, it is necessary to exclude a sudden movement, running, jumping, avoid soft seats. It is not necessary to self-medicate, waiting for the unbearable pain and complications. It is important to consult a doctor, undergo tests and receive treatment.
