Can you walk after tailbone fracture?

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Sacral fracture may occur alone or simultaneously with pelvic injury; The former is rare, while the latter accounts for 30% - 40% of pelvic fractures. Therefore, the absolute incidence of pelvic fractures is much higher than that of single pelvic fractures, and it is more common in men. The treatment is also complicated, and it needs to be treated at the same time with pelvic fracture. Can you walk after tailbone fracture? Let's talk about it

Can you walk after tailbone fracture?

"Generally speaking, the recovery of the fracture of the tailbone can be normal in half a month to a month. Tailbone fracture generally does not need special treatment, bed rest at home is OK. At the same time, patients can use some oral or external drugs to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, detumescence and analgesia to accelerate the improvement of symptoms.

It takes three months for all fractures of the tailbone to recover. If you are eager to recover or want to recover better, you can cooperate with physical therapy, such as high-frequency electricity, medium frequency electricity, moxibustion and cupping therapy.

The patients with mild bilateral sacroiliac joint dislocation complicated with sacral fracture only need to rest in bed for a few days (frog position) and be fixed with plaster shorts. However, the patients with obvious displacement and failure in manual reduction need open reduction and bilateral sacroiliac joint fusion.

matters needing attention

Physical therapy, sitz bath and other therapies are feasible, and attention should be paid to local pressure. For severe cases, sacral canal block therapy can be used once a week, 3-4 times as a course of treatment. For the patients with intractable symptoms, tailectomy can be performed as appropriate.