The cause of tailbone pain is very much, one of them is caused by serious injuries, such as fallen or broken coccyx. But in general, sitting on a hard surface for a prolonged period causes most people to experience tailbone pain.
Home Remedy for Tailbone Pain
- Taking analgesics
In order to relieve tail bone pain, you can take the pain relief medication that helps to reduce inflammation and pain, such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen can be purchased at pharmacies. Use the right dosage, ie ibuprofen 600 mg consumed eight hours or 500 mg acetaminophen consumed four hours. Read more about the rules of use on the label and should not be consumed more than the dose that has been prescribed.
- Compress with an ice pack
If you get injury on your tailbone, compress your tailbone with ice two days after the injury. Compress every hour, each for 20 minutes and avoid putting ice directly to tailbone. You can wrap it with a towel. The purpose compressing with ice is to reduce inflammation and help relieve pain. After two days, keep your tail bone compresses for three times a day.
- Use a heating pad
According to studies, putting a heating pad on the tailbone can help relieve pain. Put the pad on your tailbone for 20 minutes, four times a day. If you do not have a heating pad, you can compress your tailbone with warm water.
- Correct your posture
Pay attention the your posture when sitting and standing. Incorrect posture may be one cause of tailbone pain. If you are sitting, put the body upright. Your neck should be straight, while your back is slightly curved.
If you want to stand up, before getting up from sitting, lean forward and bend your back, and then you can stood up.
We recommend you to seek help from a specialist to relieve the pain.
- Muscle massage, by massaging muscles attached to tail bone to help relieve the pain.
- Taking antidepressant drugs or inject local anesthetic on the tailbone to relieve the pain for a few weeks.
- Physical therapy, basic relaxation techniques in the pelvis to make urinating or defecating easier.
Tail bone pain usually may disappear naturally within a few weeks or months. But as long as the pain is still, you will feel it during urinating, sex, sit down, change position from sitting to standing, and standing for a prolonged period.
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