Henry,
I've got no clinical experience with it, so I cannot answer your question
about how long it will last. For your information, however, PubMed gave 80+
articles when typing in "coccygodynia" (without the quotation marks); of 40
articles it also had the abstracts. There are answers to your previous
questions mentioned in those abstracts (I quickly scanned some of them).
R.,
Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Tsao" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: vrijdag 31 augustus 2001 14:49
Subject: Re: coccyx angulation
Douglas,
Thank you for your reply.
The origin of my question was from a patient that one of my colleague have
been treating for the past 15 months (yes, that loooooong). This guy has
been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, but suffers from intermittent
flare ups of low back pain. He apparently went to a chiro who suggested that
it may be his coccyx, and funny enough, he began to recollect a past
incidence of falling on his buttock, and believed that this single incident
brought on the whole CFS and back pain.
By the sounds of it, the chiro did a good job of convincing him that his
problem was in the coccyx, but the irony is that this chiro does not do
coccyx adjustments (I can only guess that he is either not trained in this
or does not have any surgical gloves :D. Belief is a strong thing, and by
the sounds of it, this guy is totally convinced. I am not even sure whether
my colleague can convince him otherwise!
I saw a website totally dedicated to coccyxdynia (www.coccyx.org) but yet
this was not even mentioned during my undergraduate Physiotherapy training.
What I do not understand or find is that if the coccyx is subluxated, will
manipulation/adjustments "reposition it" and how long does it last??
Henry***
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