This massage therapist finds a lot of trouble in tailbones.
They are really supposed to flex a bit when sitting, guide and balance while
walking or running. Too may of my clients have stuckee tailbones, drifting off
and away and leaving clients with everything from migraines to crabby
personalities?
Oh my, I had a good one the other day. The rest of this
client’s spine has been a challenge of momentous proportions. I have chased
every symptom up and down the row and always been perplexed by this tailbone.
It dips out and in. This tailbone defies gentle suggestion, firm guidance and
repeated nudging.
It has been a full-court offense for this client. Weekly
massages and regular adjustments, acupuncture and daily yoga. She has had
coccyx cushions, ice packs, warm packs, you name it.
Funny thing happened the other day.
The client was doing the breathy hatha yoga, trying to open
the diaphragm and get the energy moving. In the middle of the pose, her
tailbone adjusted itself with a “POP!”
“It was really loud,” she said. “I didn’t move for a few
minutes. I wasn’t sure what happened.”
Well the pop heard round the block didn’t hurt, and now she
is walking a lot better. My turn to ask: Do you remember hurting the tailbone?
Well she did, and funny thing was, she didn’t remember it
until she popped. She was in a parking lot, age 12, and had tripped backwards
over a parking stone and landed squarely on her tailbone. She saw stars and
couldn’t move. The area hurt for a really long time and she never had it looked
at because she was embarrassed.
Somehow that tailbone wasn’t broken, but it had been in a
bad way for a very long time. And probably it was annoying the heck out of her
spine every time she sat down.
“I think that pop was a good sign,” I told her.