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How to identify if you have a hairline fracture on the coccyx? it hurts badly when i am sitting or compressing that area. been 3 months. but i can walk without pain if i havent just sat on it. no pain while pooping too
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X ray: An x Ray should demonstrate this fracture after a few days.
Answered 3/31/2020
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Coccydynia: It is probably not fractured. an xray may or not show it but treatment is the same either way. Usually you just have to wait it out, use heat, nsaid's
Answered 4/6/2020
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