Links to sites relevant to coccyx pain

On the website of the French Society of Orthopaedic and Osteopathic Manual Medicine, Dr Jean-Yves Maigne has created a section on the subject of coccydynia. Dr Maigne has published many medical papers on the subject (see Medical Papers).

Sabine Leppanen has created a website on coccydynia, to collect and publish information about coccygectomy - what factors influence the success of the operation, who are the best surgeons, etc.

Franck cré un site Internet en Français, http://coccyx.net.free.fr/

The E-medicine site has a detailed discussion of coccydynia intended for doctors, including 11 sections.

There is a balanced and clear discussion of coccydynia on 5 pages of the Spine Health site: Introduction and history, Causes of coccydynia, Diagnosis, Conservative treatments, Surgical treatments. One error on this site: like most medical books this site says that the coccyx is fused into one piece, though in fact this is not usually the case (see page on this site about the normal coccyx).

The University of Iowa School of Nursing pain web-site. Very informative on pain and medications in general.

Pelvic-health.com Site about various sources of pelvic pain by Robin Christenson, Physical Therapist.

Pain Support - Site run by a pain sufferer, with helpful tips on living with pain.

Pain Relief Action Forum - Yahoo group campaigning for more effective pain relief.

The Tragedy of Needless Pain Article in Scientific American by Ronald Melzack showing that morphine can be used to treat chronic pain without the risk of addiction.

American Society for Action on Pain Campaigning site on pain treatment.

Chronic Pain web site - Covers many causes of chronic pain.

Pain net Information on pain relief specialists in the USA.

Series of medical articles on pain and suffering from the Lancet (medical journal) 1999. You have to register to see the articles, but registration is free.

Pain - The Science of Suffering. Book by Patrick Wall. Despite its forbidding title, this is a very clear and up to date book explaining pain for the non-specialist. If you want to understand how chronic pain occurs and why different treatments are used, I recommend it. Patrick Wall wrote this book in his seventies while suffering from prostate cancer. He was one of the principal scientists researching pain, and founded the journal Pain. He died in August 2001. Published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1999. ISBN number 0 297 84255 2.

The Challenge of Pain. Classic book by Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall, now in second edition. This gives a lot of history and technical detail, so parts of it can be difficult to follow.

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