Hi I have been suffering from tailbone pain since 2 years now. I am a ca and have lots of sitting involved and developed this pain. Have been using coccyx pillow for 1 year. Also have been regular with physiotherapy involving ift/ultrasound. Got sitting/standing xray done and mri too. Reports suggest type 2 coccyx and I have attached mri report and xray film also. One physio from bangalore has been trying to convince me to go for "internal manipulation of coccyx through rectum" and the cost is 5000/session and there will be 15 sessions over a period of 9 months. When I asked my ortho about this procedure, he advised me against this as this will require re-fracturing the coccyx and again setting it ortho gave 3 months medicine - risofos 35, vit d, calcium, evion and one pain killer. I don't want to go for any surgery or internal manipulation because this is a sensitive area and might cause some other damage down there please help me about this what exactly needs to be done.
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The lower end of the vertebral column is inflamed and that bone is called coccyx bone and the condition is called coccydynia. The conservative management would be to keep ice in that inflamed area during one time in a day and also to sit in a hot water bowl where the penetration of the heat would help to reduce the inflammation. And to reduce the weight falling on the inflammed surface we suggest patients to use air cushion pillow (also called as doughnut pillow) where in the buttock's weight will not fall exactly on the painful tail bone and that would automatically reduce the pain. For this the best treatment would be to undergo ultrasonic therapy in one of the nearby physiotherapy clinics.
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