Tailbone pain-"Sitting" x-rays for Coccyx Pain
Diagnosis For Tailbone Treatment
Practically every day, patients with tailbone pain come to
see Doctors. Many have faced a same challenge regarding imaging studies.
Unfortunately VERY common that the patient has tailbone pain
(coccyx pain, coccydynia), but they have a difficult time getting medical
imaging studies such as basic x-rays (radiographs) of the tailbone.
There are unfortunately many reasons why the coccyx x-rays
fail to be done:
The treating physician Doctor may not know much about
tailbone pain, and if they don’t know what kinds of x-rays to order or what
kinds of abnormalities to screen for on those x-rays, then they do not know the
benefits of ordering and obtaining the x-rays in the 1st place.
The treating physician may not know more about the Diagnosis For Tailbone Treatment, and how modern treatments are based upon taking the imaging
results into consideration. If the treating physician incorrectly thinks that x-rays
will not make a difference, then they will be doubtfully to order those x-rays.
Even though if the ordering physician correctly orders Diagnosis For Tailbone Treatment x-rays, the radiology technician may be so familiar with doing lumbar
x-rays (and rarely does any coccyx x-rays), that the technician is on
autopilot-mode and when you come with some pain in the low back or buttock area
they just automatically do the lumbar or lumbosacral x-rays.
The Doctor may have absentmindedly “checked off” the order
box that said “lumbar” or “lumbosacral” x-rays. Because pain in those parts is
probably thousands times more common than tailbone pain, the template forms
probably do not even have a box to check off for coccyx x-rays.
An insurance company or health care system may delay authorization
for the x-rays, because they incorrectly believe that the x-rays are unlikely
to have any impact on the patient’s subsequent treatment.
The insurance company and health care system may incorrectly
use authorization/denial criteria regarding the Lumbar spine, and
inappropriately apply those lumbar criteria to the coccyx region.
Every week here at the Tailbone Pain hospitals, new patients
come to see doctors with similar stories, having suffered through the
situations described above. While they are here, we review the previous images (x-rays, MRI, etc.) and we assess
whether the studies did or did not give an appropriate evaluation of the
coccyx. We also can obtain additional imaging studies, like x-rays done while
the patient is sitting.
When the appropriate imaging studies are over, the majority
of patients with tailbone pain will have an accurate Diagnosis For Tailbone Treatment that appropriately
explains the reason for their symptoms. If diagnosis then also provides a basis
for a personalized treatment plan that specifically treats the specific cause
of the pain in that specific patient.
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