Dear Mayo Clinic: My tailbone has been hurting for the past few weeks. I have read that it takes a while to heal, but is there anything I can do in the meantime to lessen the pain? At what point would ...

Chances are, you don't think much about your tailbone — until you injure it. Your tailbone, or coccyx, is a small triangular bone at the base of your spine, and it’s possible to bruise or fracture it, ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My friend’s daughter fell three times on her tailbone at a young age, and it was cracked. She is now a 25-year-old woman and limps around with pain in this area. She has been told that ...