Tail Bone Pain And Your Health

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Many of us spend a vast majority of our time sitting. We commute to work, sit for most of an eight hour day, commute back home, sit to read or watch TV. Sitting concentrates much of our body weight onto our tail bone, and if we are experiencing tail bone pain, every moment of that can be agony.

If you’re worried that nothing can be done about this constant pain, its important to realize that, unless due to a severe trauma such as a break, tail bone pain can be addressed by a variety of exercises and postural changes. By creating an exercise regimen designed to address tail bone pain, you’re specifically working to strengthen muscles that help improve posture. Improving your posture lessens the pain and vastly improves your quality of life.

Having good posture does not only mean standing and walking correctly. It also affects other aspects of one’s life, such as in the way you stand, walk, perform tasks, and even the position in which you sleep. All of this is important and must be taken into consideration when addressing tailbone pain. A good posture program should examine and deal with most of these issues, but many do not.

The tailbone is located right at the base of our spine, is the last bone there, and is one of our body’s most important support structures. The body is supported and kept aligned by hundreds of small muscles that move in a flexible way to accommodate our movement. The tailbone as well should be able to move freely without pain; however, that is not always the case.

At times, our postures compromise these movements, and the way we sit puts a lot of pressure onto the tailbone, which was not meant to support weight. If you can imagine, the head being almost the weight of a bowling ball sitting on top a wobbly and narrow support structure, ending in a small point. If you add the various organs near the lower spine that also add weight to this tiny bone, you can see why people may suffer from tailbone pain.

This pressure is weighing down on this small area everyday. The tailbone should move freely and without pain, however with bad posture and much weight put upon it, the muscles surrounding the tailbone will tend to tense up to try and keep you up-right in a good posture. Instead of moving freely, the tailbone will seize up and press against the newly tightened muscles. Therefore, the pain you may be experiencing in your tailbone is an indication to adopt a better posture, where your weight is more evenly distributed.

Thankfully, fixing this problem only involves a simple change in habits. Your hipbones are flat and much wider than your tailbone. Therefore, they can distribute weight more evenly. If you tilt your pelvis forward slightly, you will take weight off the tailbone and shift it onto the hips. This will free tense muscles and allow them to begin relaxing. As the muscles relax, the pain will lessen.

One way to help with this is by increasing the flexibility of the lower back. By loosening and improving the various lower back muscles, tilting your pelvis forward becomes easier. A good and safe regimen of lower back stretches is key to this process. Lower back stretches need not be painful. Many are simple and enjoyable. They can be done standing up, thus requiring less space. You might even make them a part of regular breaks at the office. Not only will each break relieve your tail bone pain temporarily, but each day of routine and safe stretching brings you just that little bit closer to ending the pain for good.

When searching for a postural improvement program, ensure that it includes a solid routine of lower back stretches. Stretching the lower back provides the abdominal strength necessary for the forward pelvic tilt that will relieve tail bone pain.

Along with experiencing less pain from your tailbone, with good posture, you will look more confident and dauntless. It is known that good posture changes how we are viewed, and treated. So relieving your back and tailbone pain will also change how others perceive you. With a good postural improvement regimen, you can make a tremendous life change that is healthy.

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