“My back ”
I have never had any injuries to my back , but after I gave birth I noticed it started to hurt . But constantly everyday , and it still does . I went to a chiropractor and they told me I did have something wrong with my back . My coxic bone is curved inwards ? Hitting my nerves on my right side so every time I take a step it’s hurting . I wanted a second opinion they gave me options to a pain center and readjusting but I know there has to be other options ..
Female | 21 years old
Complaint duration: 2 years
Medications: None
Conditions: None
8 Answers
As a chiropractor, it's crucial to assess and treat postpartum back issues with a movement-based approach, considering the significant changes your body has undergone during pregnancy and childbirth. The pain you're experiencing, particularly if your coccyx (tailbone) is curved inwards and impacting nerves, is a condition that requires careful consideration.
The curvature of the coccyx inward causing pain with each step suggests a misalignment that might be impacting your sacrococcygeal joint and possibly affecting nearby nerves. This condition can indeed lead to persistent discomfort, especially when sitting, walking, or standing.
Non-invasive treatments, beyond pain management and manual readjustments, include:
Specific Chiropractic Adjustments: Targeted adjustments can help realign the coccyx and relieve pressure on the nerves. These adjustments should be gentle, considering the sensitivity of the area.
Therapeutic exercise prescription: Tailored exercises can strengthen the pelvic floor, lower back, and abdominal muscles, supporting your spine and potentially reducing pain.
Ergonomic and Lifestyle Adjustments: Modifying your daily activities to reduce strain on your back, along with ergonomic improvements in your sitting and sleeping arrangements, can help alleviate pain.
Soft Tissue Therapy: Techniques such as massage or myofascial release targeting the surrounding muscles and ligaments can relieve tension and pain.
Cold/Heat Therapy: Applying ice packs or heat pads can offer temporary relief from pain and inflammation.
Before proceeding with any treatment, it's essential to have a thorough examination and possibly imaging studies (like X-rays) to understand the extent of the misalignment and its impact on surrounding tissues. A multidisciplinary approach, potentially involving a team of healthcare providers, can offer a comprehensive treatment plan tailored to your specific needs.
Given your situation, exploring all non-invasive options before considering more invasive procedures is wise. It's also important to communicate openly with your healthcare providers about your concerns and preferences to ensure that your treatment plan aligns with your comfort and health goals. Remember, every case is unique, and what works for one individual may not work for another, so it's critical to find a tailored approach that addresses your specific condition and symptoms.
The curvature of the coccyx inward causing pain with each step suggests a misalignment that might be impacting your sacrococcygeal joint and possibly affecting nearby nerves. This condition can indeed lead to persistent discomfort, especially when sitting, walking, or standing.
Non-invasive treatments, beyond pain management and manual readjustments, include:
Specific Chiropractic Adjustments: Targeted adjustments can help realign the coccyx and relieve pressure on the nerves. These adjustments should be gentle, considering the sensitivity of the area.
Therapeutic exercise prescription: Tailored exercises can strengthen the pelvic floor, lower back, and abdominal muscles, supporting your spine and potentially reducing pain.
Ergonomic and Lifestyle Adjustments: Modifying your daily activities to reduce strain on your back, along with ergonomic improvements in your sitting and sleeping arrangements, can help alleviate pain.
Soft Tissue Therapy: Techniques such as massage or myofascial release targeting the surrounding muscles and ligaments can relieve tension and pain.
Cold/Heat Therapy: Applying ice packs or heat pads can offer temporary relief from pain and inflammation.
Before proceeding with any treatment, it's essential to have a thorough examination and possibly imaging studies (like X-rays) to understand the extent of the misalignment and its impact on surrounding tissues. A multidisciplinary approach, potentially involving a team of healthcare providers, can offer a comprehensive treatment plan tailored to your specific needs.
Given your situation, exploring all non-invasive options before considering more invasive procedures is wise. It's also important to communicate openly with your healthcare providers about your concerns and preferences to ensure that your treatment plan aligns with your comfort and health goals. Remember, every case is unique, and what works for one individual may not work for another, so it's critical to find a tailored approach that addresses your specific condition and symptoms.
You need to get your coccyx adjusted and your pelvis probably. if you are in NYC call me at 212 243 5515.
I'm sorry you are hurting, please check for an Airrosti practitioner near you. If there is none in your area call the 800 number and do a remote visit so they can help you. You can also see a PT to see if they can help you.
You need a coccyx specific Chiropractor. Hard to find, but there out there.
It’s always good to have a second opinion if you’re uncomfortable with the first. If you have the disc and/or X-ray report bring it to another doctor and explore the possibility of physical therapy exercises to strengthen your core and pelvic floor muscles. Pregnancy and the associated hormone shifts can change your structure. Gentle adjustments and strengthening exercises can do wonders towards correcting the issues.
Unfortunately, without seeing the full image and both views, I cannot make an opinion about whats causing the issue. I do suggest going to another doctor of chiropractic if you need to and take those images on a disc or thumb drive for them. Adjusting the coccyx can give some relief. The coccyx is often shifted due to birth. *Thank you,* *Dr. Dawndi Tomlinson, D.C.* Owner/Chiropractor ChiroCatered, PLLC All correspondence is covered by HIPPA regulations
Before I start, and answering your question, I would like to thank you asking for the question, and I will try to do my best to answer your question and relieve your anxiety.
Whenever someone has gone through the entire birthing process, and subsequently has transition onto becoming a mother, through my 25 years of practice, I have seen many muscular, skeletal issues associated with such a process.
The main complaints that I hear is persistent, but localized lower back pain, and sometimes with an associated sciatica. That is a very common chief complaint, post pregnancy.
If I’m understanding the gist of your question, when you say that your sacrococcygeal bone is pointing inwards, I believe that this tells me that you have an increased sacral base angle. What does that mean?
That basically means that at your Lumbo cycle junction, which is at the junction where your low back meets your tailbone, it has taken an acute, steep angle thereby causing you to have a “swayback”appearance.
This is very common condition, and what typically happens is that when a patient presents with a swayback appearance, all of the posterior vertical segments from the fifth lumbar segment even the fourth lumbar segment to the first sacral segment, becomes compressed, and subsequently pinched. Typically a constant, low back pain, tenderness, and stiffness..
All this is confirmed via history intake, a thorough, physical examination, and of course, a detailed treatment plan along with a long-term management protocol.
The first step is to base angle, and this can be done via correcting any self along the lumbosacral region, once that is corrected we have a focus on the musculoskeletal structures of that region.
This is performing any type of myofascial release therapy, trigger point therapy, and if necessary, perform an active release therapy on those structures. Once that is accomplished, that will allow the sacrococcygeal more of a natural alignment, and once that is accomplished the pain will subsequently be diminished.
I hope this is the answer your question and allow you to achieve a more comfortable lifestyle. Please continue to pay close attention to your body treated as a temple. And doing so you will live too much more pain-free lifestyle.
Thank you, yours in health,
Dr Charles Nguyen
Whenever someone has gone through the entire birthing process, and subsequently has transition onto becoming a mother, through my 25 years of practice, I have seen many muscular, skeletal issues associated with such a process.
The main complaints that I hear is persistent, but localized lower back pain, and sometimes with an associated sciatica. That is a very common chief complaint, post pregnancy.
If I’m understanding the gist of your question, when you say that your sacrococcygeal bone is pointing inwards, I believe that this tells me that you have an increased sacral base angle. What does that mean?
That basically means that at your Lumbo cycle junction, which is at the junction where your low back meets your tailbone, it has taken an acute, steep angle thereby causing you to have a “swayback”appearance.
This is very common condition, and what typically happens is that when a patient presents with a swayback appearance, all of the posterior vertical segments from the fifth lumbar segment even the fourth lumbar segment to the first sacral segment, becomes compressed, and subsequently pinched. Typically a constant, low back pain, tenderness, and stiffness..
All this is confirmed via history intake, a thorough, physical examination, and of course, a detailed treatment plan along with a long-term management protocol.
The first step is to base angle, and this can be done via correcting any self along the lumbosacral region, once that is corrected we have a focus on the musculoskeletal structures of that region.
This is performing any type of myofascial release therapy, trigger point therapy, and if necessary, perform an active release therapy on those structures. Once that is accomplished, that will allow the sacrococcygeal more of a natural alignment, and once that is accomplished the pain will subsequently be diminished.
I hope this is the answer your question and allow you to achieve a more comfortable lifestyle. Please continue to pay close attention to your body treated as a temple. And doing so you will live too much more pain-free lifestyle.
Thank you, yours in health,
Dr Charles Nguyen
There are many reasons for back pain and if it is continuing 2 years after giving birth you will need to have an in depth examination to determine the true pain generator. I don’t have enough information to aid you further, find a good spinal Doctor who can take a full history and do a full examination as once the cause of pain is determined, proper treatment can begin.
