Pain in the coccyx area after sports

The Coccyx is not that other, as the lower part of the spine, composed of four or five fused vertebrae. Under some assumptions, this served as a basis vestige of a tail. However, modern man the coccyx serves as the attachment of ligaments and muscles. However, the inconvenience in the event of damage or injury, this area is a very real and tangible.

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Main causes for anorectal and coccygeal pain true

Often after exercise or active sports people may experience discomfort and soreness in the Sacro-coccygeal region. So, after you perform deadlifts or squats pain can increase and not be held for several days. When the pain and discomfort reaches its climax, a familiar way of life for the patient becomes impossible. Coccyx pain both when sitting and horizontal position. After an energizing workout at the gym, performing weight training, in particular, deadlifts, the patient can not move normally. Every step is a struggle and causes pain.

The common reasons for sore tailbone, can be:

  • prior trauma
  • disease of spine (osteochondrosis, infringement of nerves, offsets, disks, etc.)
  • cysts, located in the coccyx area;
  • various diseases of the pelvic organs;
  • tight clothing and other factors contributing to the compression of the perineum and pressure on the coccyx;
  • extension of the coccyx as a result of a difficult birth;
  • diseases of the rectum, etc.

To Identify the root cause and understand why coccyx pain, you must visit a health facility and undertake the necessary diagnostic measures.

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Kokcigodiniâ and sports

Coccygodynia is called acute pain syndrome, which is manifested in the coccygeal area. It is a disease that occurs predominantly in athletes, athletes and bodybuilders, as well as persons who have ever received a spinal injury. Among the main causes of the disease:

  • drop with a kick to the buttocks;
  • coccygeal fracture segment (long)
  • prolonged sitting on hard;
  • excessive load on the sacrococcygeal Department;
  • the blockade of the sacral-coccygeal articulation, etc.

To receive the microtraumas can lead active and workout, abdominal exercises, buttocks and thighs. If your tailbone hurts after visit the gym and perform deadlifts, a visit to the doctor, you'd better not to postpone. The pain may be associated with the protrusion, intervertebral hernia. Although most often the reason is the muscle tension in the uncomfortable position of the body – the myofascial syndrome.

the Mechanism of occurrence of pain in the tailbone during physical activity

After sports can often experience discomfort and pain in various parts of the body. Most of them are commonly attributed to the delayed onset muscle soreness, especially if the load on the back muscles or the press was in excess of permissible values. Many patients come to medical institutions with complaints like "a really sore lower back and coccyx when crunches, tailbone hurts after running bower", etc.

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If after performing abdominal exercises, back muscles and buttocks you have a sore tailbone, there may be several reasons:

  • providing excessive load on the muscles;
  • banal tension;
  • injury resulting from excessive loading or improper technique of the exercise.

for example, if you notice pain in the process of doing abdominal exercises or back muscles, you should pay attention to technique. Maybe you chose the incorrect position, in which the load is distributed unevenly, it puts pressure on certain areas, etc.

Excessive load on the spine can result in herniation. In this case, my back hurts for a long time, even after classes are negated. If after school coccyx pain for a long time, it hurts to walk and move, but at rest position the discomfort subsides, chances of a muscle strain. In some cases, when the patient complains that he has a sore tailbone, the true reason for the discomfort lies in the muscles and damage nearby tissues, and possibly internal organs. Also likely is infringing on the nerve endings in the process of implementing bower or some exercises for abs.

Prevention and treatment

As a prevention of many diseases, one symptom of which is pain in coccygeal region, is a therapeutic exercise. For example, it can help with the treatment of coccygodynia. To cope with the problem and prevent its occurrence in futurewill help:

  • massage
  • spinal traction
  • specially selected set of exercises;
  • herbal and traditional medicines;
  • acupuncture, osteopathy, manual therapy.

In severe cases, such as when fracture of the coccygeal segments, without the possibility of conservative treatment methods, surgery is indicated to ectomy (removal). Find the actual therapy by a doctor after the diagnostic measures and establishing the true causes discomfort.

Sources:

  1. Kokcigodiniâ. Belenky A. G. Russian medical journal.
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  3. Vertebral lumbar pain: polipektomii the origin, symptomatology, principles of treatment. Y. V. Grachev, Journal of the Attending physician, 05/08