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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet. - In our opinion
of course, Bob.
- Today, we're going to talk about the number one
treatment for tailbone or sits bone pain.
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- All right, let's talk about
what we're trying to solve here.
With tailbone pain, we're talking about the coccyx, here.
And this often gets injured from a fall maybe,
or there's a lot of ways it can happen, actually.
But generally it's...
- [Brad] People who snowboard have a problem with this.
- [Bob] Oh sure.
- [Brad] Yeah, they fall on that area a lot.
- [Bob] It usually is an injury, wouldn't you say?
From a fall, or something like that.
- [Brad] Yeah, right, right.
And they can take a long time to heal.
- [Bob] Right. - [Brad] Months.
And while that's happening,
we need to take the pressure off that.
That's why, - [Bob] Right.
- [Brad] What we're going to show you today.
- [Bob] But that's called the coccyx,
and when you have pain there it's called coccydynia.
- [Brad] Okay. - [Bob] -dynia means pain,
right? - [Brad] Yeah.
- [Bob] The other area
that you can actually take pressure off,
by using these same cushions,
or use the little technique we're going to show you,
is the ischial tuberosities.
These are the bones that you're sitting on,
when you sit on a chair, you'll feel it.
- Right now, I can literally feel my sit bones
making contact there.
Especially if you're on a hard surface.
- So, now there's two things that could be going on here.
Actually, almost three things, really.
One, you could have a bursitis,
right at the tip of the bone, here.
There's a little fluid filled sac
that is underneath the tendon and the muscle, right here,
and that helps the tendon glide over the muscle.
- [Brad] And that happens to be the hamstring...
- [Bob] The tendon glide over the bone.
- [Brad] I knew what you meant,
but that's why I didn't say anything.
But that tendon happens to be attached
to the hamstring muscles, which...
- [Bob] This isn't accurate,
but this kind of gives you a depiction.
- [Brad] It's... that's where it... It's there.
- [Bob] So, you could also have what we call
a high tendinopathy of the hamstring.
Which means that you've got something going on here,
in the tendon.
One, it could be tendinitis,
and two, it could be tendinosis.
Tendinitis is inflammation,
tendinosis is tears or deterioration.
This is what my wife had, okay?
- [Brad] Either way, it's painful.
- [Bob] Either way, it's painful,
so she, absolutely, did the thing we're going to,
did the thing we recommended today.
- Are we going to show them?
- Yeah, we're going to show them.
- Alright! - Let's show them, right now.
So, the first thing is,
you've got to take pressure off that area
when you're sitting.
I mean, it just, in order for things to calm down,
you just have to.
And my wife, she actually didn't use this method,
she used this method.
I'm going to show you the free method first.
- Right, what you can do at home.
- You want to do it, Brad?
- Sure, just take the pillow off your bed,
or wherever you can find a pillow.
A throw pillow might work well.
This is a bed pillow, obviously.
Bundle it up, like I'm showing here.
Put it here, at the front part of the chair,
and if they got a soft, cushiony chair,
it won't work very well,
you need to have a chair that's firm.
- [Bob] Solid chair.
- And right now, my sit bones here, are not...
They're airborne.
The pressure is through my hamstrings,
and, you know, I can rock forward and back a little bit,
and I'm clearly off that painful spot,
particularly the coccyx.
Right now, my coccyx is very well protected.
It has no force or pressure on it from the chair,
so that works out well.
- I've even seen this recommended, Brad,
for people with back pain,
because sometimes it puts you into the arch.
- Yeah. - You know what I mean,
naturally. - Right.
So now, if I go forward like this,
it really helps my lordorsis, or my lower back.
- Yeah, we had a subscriber that said
this saved him on a plane,
like he, - Oh really?
- He was like, "What am I going to do?"
- Right. - And he saw our video
and he said he just took the pillows and...
- I can see that, you're pretty much stuck in that chair,
- Yeah, you're stuck in it.
- Particularly if you're right in the middle of two people.
- So my wife,
and this is where we got...
Ergonomic Innovations is the name of the company.
We'll have a link below.
It's the Donut Pillow.
It's made out of memory foam
and, as you can see,
it's got an area here for the coccyx, or the tailbone,
and also the sit bones, to take the pressure off.
- Right.
Not only that, it has it this way, as well.
So it's coming from two different approaches.
- Exactly.
But, I actually, I use it like this, Brad.
- Okay.
- And that's how I found it to be the most comfortable.
I don't know if you're going to be able to see it,
but my sit bones are sitting right in that area now,
and then the coccyx, because of that little canal here.
- Yeah. - That's free, too.
My wife, she had to put up with the jokes, of course,
because it's a haemorrhoid pillow, too.
- Oh, sure, yeah.
- But she has one at work, she has one at home.
I think she's kind of drifted away from it.
- Yeah. - It's finally feeling better.
She had to have it in the car, too, I mean...
- Just carry it with you.
- Well, I mean, she did.
When it gets painful, I mean. - Right.
- When you're on a two hour trip,
she was just being tortured.
- And I, again, these are slow healers, unfortunately.
So you're going to use it for...
- They are very slow healing - weeks.
- A tendon can take a long time to heal,
- Yeah. - take up to a year.
You know, it can get reinjured, so it doesn't heal,
- Right. - correctly.
- Continues to be irritated, slowing things down but...
- We did do a video on more of the treatment
beyond doing this. - Sure, yeah.
- For that, you can look for that under Bob and Brad.
I think we put high tendinopathy,
hamstring tendinopathy is what the title was.
- And I think we have it under a coccyx injury.
- Probably, too, yeah.
The other thing is if, you know, you're going,
"Well, I don't really have that kind of pain,
I don't want to sign up for the contest."
If you have a bony butt (chuckles)
You know what.
- Bony butt syn...
- One of our office managers, she has this in her chair,
you notice that?
- Yeah I did.
- So, I had, I think that it,
it just makes it more comfortable.
It's just going to give you a more comfortable day.
It actually might help even,
position your back a little bit, too.
- Right, that would be like an ectomorph, right?
- That's... - Technically speaking.
- Endomorph? Would it?
- Oh, now I'm going to have to look that up.
- I think the ecto- is larger,
and endo- is smaller.
- Well, I'm sure we're going to get someone who knows...
I'm going to look it up.
- Well, there's to be ecto-, endo- and meso-, right?
That was always the middle.
- I thought ecto- was a skinny person.
The skinny butt syndrome.
- Alright, we'll find out.
We'll get back to you.
Thanks!