Tailbone Fracture - Causes, Symptoms and Treatments

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Tailbone Fracture - Causes, Symptoms and
Treatments

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What to know about Coccyx Fracture?

• Coccyx or tailbone although serves no specific
  purpose in humans but serves as one leg of the
  pelvic tripod. This helps provide weight-bearing
  support to us in the seated position. A tailbone
  is a triangle-shaped bone consisting of three to
  five different sections, which can make it
  difficult to detect a broken tailbone.
• Our tailbone is curved at the end, but the degree
  of curvature varies from person to person. The
  part of your upper body weight rests on your
  coccyx whenever you sit down. Tailbone can break
  or get injured which can be very painful,
  especially when you sit down. Bruising of
  tailbone or ligament pull in the neighboring area
  is more common in comparison to tailbone breaks,
  or fractures, which are fairly uncommon.

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Causes Of Tailbone Or Coccyx Fracture

• Trauma or a direct injury This is the most
  common cause of tailbone fracture or crack. Car
  accidents or playing contact sports such as
  hockey increases the risk of tailbone fractures.
  Falling onto the tailbone in the seated position,
  especially against a hard surface leads to the
  tailbone fracture.
• Age Among youngsters, a tailbone fracture occurs
  mostly due to a backward fall or a high-energy
  accident. Sometimes in older adults, nutritional
  deficiencies can make broken bones more common.
• Weight The coccyx rotates under the body when
  seated in a thin or average-weight person. This
  helps absorb weight better. But, in a heavier
  person, with larger buttocks, the pelvis and
  coccyx rotate less when sitting. The lesser
  rotation puts more stress on the tip of the
  coccyx causing it to dislocate or break.

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Symptoms of Tailbone Fracture

• The most common sign of tailbone fracture is
  lower back pain or pain radiating to the legs.
  Some of the other symptoms include
• Constant dull pain in the very low back, just
  above the buttocks.
• Pain worsens when sitting and standing up from a
  sitting position.
• Swelling around the tailbone.
• Pain worsening during a bowel movement.
• Pain worsening during sexual intercourse.
• Irregular bowel movements.
• Frequent need to defecate.
• Numbness or tingling in the leg.
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