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Tailbone Pain
Hey mamas! Who here experiences or did experience tailbone pain? How would you describe it? What did you do to overcome it? Curious to see how many other people have dealt with this and I just don't want to feel like I'm the only one. I DO NOT want to sit on a donut pillow for the rest of my life! I'm only 25 and want A LOT more babies but I also want to be healthy, strong, and confident in my body's capabilities BEFORE I get pregnant again. If you care, my story and experience: At 6 months postpartum I was experiencing tailbone pain. My OBGYN referred me to a physical therapist who I saw three times a week for two months. No improvement. Since they didn't know what else to do with me they referred me to a pain specialist who gave me a steroid shot that did NOTHING. The pain doc then referred me to a different physical therapist with a more chiropractic approach and "adjusted" my tailbone. At last, RELIEF! I went once a week for a month and rarefy had any pain. They said I didn't need to come anymore and I did great for a while. So good that we thought about trying to conceive for our second this year, but as of this week it has come back and is more painful than before. I am so tired of feeling like I'm getting somewhere and then landing back in square one. I'm also frustrated that no one else seems to know what it is because they've never heard of it or dealt with it before.
Tailbone Pain
4 likes • Feb 4
I had a similar experience to yours! (Minus the steroid shot) I had an office job prior to getting pregnant and started off my pregnancy with tailbone pain. The pain progressively got worse later in the pregnancy. I went to regular PT and was then sent to pelvic floor PT in the hopes of adjusting my tailbone. They did external and internal manipulation of my tailbone which honestly really didn’t help me much. I then went to a chiropractor who specializes in body work and dry needling and that’s when the pain went away. The dry needling made a HUGE difference for me. My pain still comes back after extended periods of sitting but I just go see my chiropractor again and it’s usually feeling better shortly after. I will say, I went to multiple chiropractors until I found her and the dry needling methods they used didn’t do much. The method my current chiropractor uses is much better. I can try to find out if it has a name for her method if you’d like.
3 likes • Feb 4
@Cassidy McLaughlin okay I asked her if her type has a specific name and she said “Not exactly, everyone will have their own way of doing it. But I focus on trigger point release or twitch response dry needling. When I move the needle, that’s looking for twitch response it’s piston or fanning when I am tightening the fascia for a release it’s called tenting. When I hit the needle along the bone it’s called pecking.“ Not sure if any of that will help you find someone to do it but that’s what she did for me that really helped. The first couple chiropractors just stuck the needles in and left them alone until they pulled them out. She puts them in and twists/moves them and sometimes hooks it up to a tens machine. It sometimes “hurts” but it’s a good hurt if you know what I mean.
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