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Tailbone Disorders
Also called: Coccyx disorders
The tailbone is the small bone at the bottom of your backbone, or spine. Tailbone disorders include tailbone injuries, pain, infections, cysts and tumors. You rarely break your tailbone. Instead, most injuries cause bruises or pulled ligaments. A backward fall onto a hard surface, such as slipping on ice, is the most common cause of such injuries. Symptoms of various tailbone disorders include pain in the tailbone area, pain upon sitting, pain or numbness in the arms or legs due to pressure on nerves in the tailbone area, and a mass or growth you can see or feel.
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Specific Conditions
- Chordoma(American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons)
- Coccydynia (Tailbone Pain)(Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
- Levator Syndrome(Merck & Co., Inc.)
- Pilonidal Cyst(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Pilonidal Disease(American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons)
- Sacral Dimple(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
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ClinicalTrials.gov: Pilonidal Sinus
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ClinicalTrials.gov: Pilonidal Sinus
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- Find an Orthopaedist(American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons)
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- American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
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National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
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Date last updated: 03 September 2008 Topic last reviewed: 06 June 2008 |