Including pelvic floor muscle spasms that may occur as a guarding reactive response because of tailbone pain and much more.
Weak pelvic floor and tailbone pain.
The realization that my problem was a muscle spasm in a particularly unfortunate location was shocking but also truly eye opening and a huge relief.
Pelvic floor physical therapists treat a wide array of conditions including bladder and or bowel incontinence bladder urgency painful intercourse and just plain pelvic pain to name just a few.
Tissues surrounding the pelvic organs may have increased or decreased sensitivity and function resulting in pelvic pain.
In these cases the tailbone is often not even painful to palpation however if you were to palpate one of the adjacent pelvic floor muscles attaching to the coccyx e g.
The pain may radiate to the tailbone hips or other nearby.
Since the tailbone serves as the attachment site for a deep layer of pelvic floor muscles called levator ani muscle spasms and irritation can cause a dull aching pain often felt in the coccyx and higher up in the rectum.
Because the pelvic floor muscles are connected to all three bones of the pelvis on the inside any issues of weakness or tightness in the pelvic floor will affect the alignment of all three of these bones.
This chronic contraction can result in problems with urination defecation ejaculation sitting and other basic day to day functions.
Coccygeus iliococcygeus pubococcygeus there is tenderness hypertonus and trigger points that may even directly reproduce the tailbone pain.
People will typically have coccydynia or persistent tailbone pain when they are sitting or when something is putting pressure on the lower spine.
Often due to childbirth.
Various pelvic floor muscle spasms tightness etc.
Having said that when it comes to focal tailbone pain the benefit or lack thereof of any given treatment probably depends most on the underlying cause or condition.
Pelvic floor dysfunction is the inability to control the muscles of your pelvic floor.
This chronic contraction spasm in the pelvic floor can cause chronic pain from the area above the pubic bone through the penis testicles perineum anus tailbone and low back.
The tailbone helps to support the pelvis.
Pelvic floor muscle spasms.
This is a condition that causes spasms in the muscles of the anus.