Including pelvic floor muscle spasms that may occur as a guarding reactive response because of tailbone pain and much more.
Weak pelvic floor and tailbone pain.
Since the tailbone serves as the attachment site for a deep layer of pelvic floor muscles called levator ani muscle spasms and irritation can cause a dull aching pain often felt in the coccyx and higher up in the rectum.
The pain may radiate to the tailbone hips or other nearby.
This chronic contraction can result in problems with urination defecation ejaculation sitting and other basic day to day functions.
In these cases the tailbone is often not even painful to palpation however if you were to palpate one of the adjacent pelvic floor muscles attaching to the coccyx e g.
Various pelvic floor muscle spasms tightness etc.
Pelvic floor muscle spasms.
Pelvic floor physical therapists treat a wide array of conditions including bladder and or bowel incontinence bladder urgency painful intercourse and just plain pelvic pain to name just a few.
Your pelvic floor is the group of muscles and ligaments in your pelvic region the pelvic floor acts like a.
This chronic contraction spasm in the pelvic floor can cause chronic pain from the area above the pubic bone through the penis testicles perineum anus tailbone and low back.
Coccygeus iliococcygeus pubococcygeus there is tenderness hypertonus and trigger points that may even directly reproduce the tailbone pain.
The tailbone helps to support the pelvis.
The pelvic floor muscles attach to the pubic symphysis and the tailbone which is attached to the bottom of the sacrum.
People will typically have coccydynia or persistent tailbone pain when they are sitting or when something is putting pressure on the lower spine.
Often due to childbirth.
The realization that my problem was a muscle spasm in a particularly unfortunate location was shocking but also truly eye opening and a huge relief.
Having said that when it comes to focal tailbone pain the benefit or lack thereof of any given treatment probably depends most on the underlying cause or condition.
This is a condition that causes spasms in the muscles of the anus.
Pelvic floor dysfunction is the inability to control the muscles of your pelvic floor.