Coccyx pain

With the continuous development of science and technology, people's living standards have been greatly improved. However, since modern people are generally busy with work and lack exercise, their physical fitness and resistance are getting worse and worse. Being busy at work and sitting at the desk for long periods of time can easily cause physical illnesses, such as cervical spondylosis, obesity, lumbar spondylosis and pain, etc.

Yes, people who sit for long periods of time and lack exercise usually suffer from lower back pain and coccyx pain. This is mainly because the nerves are compressed for too long without being properly relaxed due to sitting for too long. Of course, there are many other reasons. Let’s take a look at them.

Coccyx pain usually occurs when sitting or after sitting for a long time. The degree of pain depends on the hardness of the chair and the length of time you sit. The patient will feel tingling in the coccyx. The area around the coccyx is very sensitive and it will feel very painful when pressing the coccyx lightly with the fingers. Sometimes the pain radiates down the legs. Some people also experience more pain in the coccyx during bowel movements and during menstruation in women.

Treatment

1. Take painkillers

2. Electrotherapy, massage and proper exercise can all be helpful.

3. Local injection of analgesics can provide relief for some patients

4. If the coccyx is broken, surgery is required, but it is rare that the coccyx needs to be removed due to severe pain.

5. You need a proper cushion made of moderate material, not too hard or too soft.

Specific treatment can be achieved by changing the sitting posture, that is, try to sit with your thighs to reduce the weight and pressure on the buttocks; when sitting, you can use air cushions or air rings to suspend the painful area to prevent local compression and thus relieve pain.

It can also be treated with infrared, ultrasonic, ion introduction, massage, acupuncture, cupping, Chinese medicine oral and external application, etc. If Chinese medicine is used for external application, drugs that relax muscles and tendons, promote blood circulation and relieve pain can be put into a cloth bag, put into a pot, add water and boil it, then apply wet heat to the affected area; local application of blood circulation and pain relief ointment or musk analgesic ointment is also effective; go to the hospital for local blockade, that is, use 2-4 ml of 2% procaine plus 0.5-1 ml of hydrocortisone acetate to block the local pain point, which can achieve immediate results.

If the coccyx deformity is obvious and conservative treatment is ineffective, surgery is the only option.

The above are the causes and treatments of coccyx pain. We can see that there are actually many causes of coccyx pain, and the treatments for different causes are different, but one thing is the same. If long-term coccyx pain is not well treated, it will cause coccyx deformity. Because when we have coccyx disease, we should go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time.