How to tell if the coccyx is fractured

After the coccyx is fractured, you must be careful not to do anything at will, and you must maintain the original posture and wait for the doctor to come for treatment. There are some good methods to determine whether the coccyx is fractured, but you must pay attention. If the coccyx is fractured, you cannot use some treatment methods indiscriminately, otherwise the problem will worsen, which will cause great damage to lying down or sitting. The following is a detailed introduction on how to determine the fracture of the coccyx.

Coccyx fracture, pain when squatting, no pain when pressing with palm, pain when pressing with fingers. Sometimes muscle strains also hurt. In order to make an accurate judgment, you still need to go to the hospital to take a lumbar X-ray.

Causes of coccyx pain include direct trauma to the coccyx or its joint ligaments, which may be caused by slipping and falling on the buttocks, or falling on the buttocks from a height, or the coccyx may be kicked or hit by an external object. Due to sprain of the joint between the sacrum and coccyx or fracture of the coccyx, local inflammation and pain of the coccyx is caused. Over time, the pain will go away as the injured area heals, but if the healing is poor or not there, the pain will persist.

Another possible reason is that the coccyx has a congenital structural defect. The coccyx has not completely fused into a whole bone, forming two or three small joints. These joints will produce slight movements when the buttocks sit down. After decades, the accumulated movement may cause coccyx joint pain. This type of pain often has no obvious history of trauma.

In terms of gender differences, women are more likely to suffer from coccyx pain than men because women have wider pelvic cavities and their coccyx is more likely to bear the weight of the body when sitting down. Of course, the chance of injuring the coccyx after slipping is greatly increased. The reason why women often have coccyx pain after childbirth is because the head of the fetus directly presses on the coccyx.