Your tailbone, also known as your coccyx, is the small triangular bone located on the bottom of your spine. Although small, your tailbone plays an important role in your posture, balance, pelvic organ support, and low back stability. The tailbone is directly connected to your sacrum, which is connected to your low back and hip bones. It is also an attachment site for your gluteus maximus and pelvic floor muscles. So when you have limited mobility or flexibility in your spinal joints, or if you are having tightness or weakness in your muscles around your pelvis, it can cause pain in your tailbone.
Tailbone pain can be sudden and sharp, or constant and dull. Pain is usually worse with long periods of sitting or standing, getting up after sitting for a long period of time, or when passing a bowel movement. It is important to make sure you are stretching and strengthening the structures around your pelvis to prevent or decrease your tailbone.
Here at Pelvic Health New Jersey, we have created a guide of different stretches and strengthening exercises that will help to address your tailbone pain! This program is a great start to addressing your pain, but a Pelvic Health Physical Therapist can evaluate your symptoms and impairments to deteremine the root cause and help heal your pain.
Looking to optimize your well being with pelvic floor physical therapy? Reach out to us at Pelvic Health Center in Madison, NJ to set up an evaluation and treatment! Feel free to call us at 908-443-9880 or email us at [email protected]. We are in-network with several insurance plans and can help you confirm your benefits before your evaluation.