How Do You Decide About Tailbone Removal (Coccyx Removal Surgery, Coccygectomy) For TAILBONE PAIN?
By: Patrick Foye, M.D., Director of the Coccyx Pain Service at New Jersey Medical School, Newark, N.J. (www.TailboneDoctor.com) For patients suffering with TAILBONE PAIN (coccyx pain), it can be a very difficult decision whether to consider surgery to remove the tailbone (coccyx removal surgery, also called coccygectomy). Although in my medical practice I specialize in treating tailbone pain without the use of surgery, I do refer probably one out of every 15-20 tailbone patients for surgical consultation. This article will focus on helping patients and their doctors decide whether to consider tailbone removal surgery, as part of the treatment of tailbone pain. The best first step is to find out what is causing the tailbone pain. Ideally this is done by seeing a physician with experience in evaluating and treating a variety of causes of tailbone pain. Tailbone pain can be caused by many different conditions, such as: coccyx fractures (fractured tailbone, “broken tailbone”, chipped tailb
