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Tailbone (Coccyx) Injury (cont.)

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Authors and Editors

Author:Steven E Doerr, MD, Emergency Physician, Lutheran Medical Center, Wheatridge, Colorado.

Editor: Melissa Conrad Stoppler, MD

Previous contributing authors and editors: Coauthor(s): Erik D Barton, MD, MS, Associate Director, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Utah Health Sciences Center.

Editors:Scott H Plantz, MD, FAAEM, Research Director, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Steven L Bernstein, MD, Vice-Chair, Academic Affairs, Department of Emergency Medicine, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mt Sinai School of Medicine.


Last Editorial Review: 10/17/2007

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Coccyx pain (tailbone pain) can frustrate patients and significantly impair quality of life, but relief is possible.

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