Tailbone Disorders

A tailbone disorder is also known as Coccyx disorders. The tailbone is the little bone at the bottom of your backbone, or spine. Tailbone disorders contain tailbone damage, pain, infections, cysts and tumors. You not often break your tailbone. In its place, most injuries cause bruises or pulled ligaments. A backward fall onto a tough surface, such as slipping on ice, is the most general cause of such injuries. Sign of different tailbone disorders contain pain in the tailbone area, pain upon sitting, pain or deadness in the arms or legs due to pressure on nerves in the tailbone area, and a mass or enlargement you can see or feel.