Star basketball player for the Golden State Warriors, USA, Steph Curry fell on a metal step during a game and caused a hairline fracture in his tailbone. It was very painful, and he had to miss five games while it healed. Star basketball player for the Golden State Warriors, USA, Steph Curry fell on a metal step during a game and caused a hairline fracture in his tailbone. It was very painful, and he had to miss five games while it healed.
Slovenian cyclist Primož Roglic, who has won the Vuelta a España four times and the Giro d'Italia once, crashed on the third stage of the 2021 Tour de France. He said he felt pain in his back and tailbone. "It affects you everywhere. I'm not comfortable even if I do nothing and just sit on the bike." Roglic continued the race for a few stages then dropped out.
Olympic gold medal winning boxer Audley Harrison wrote on twitter "Holy macaroni... u wouldn't believe the pain an injured coccyx (tailbone) can give. I just had treatment with my doc & WOW"
Actress and singer-songwriter Miley Cyrus injured her tailbone. She went on twitter and said: "cracked my tail bone doing a front flip… on to the couch. thats like when i tripped over a pillow and broke my arm. #onlyme"
Professional basketball player Tyson Chandler, who plays for the New York Knicks fell while playing against the Mavericks, and hurt both wrists and his tailbone. "This is the worst I felt all season,'' said Chandler. "I had a rough night. I came down awkwardly."
Indian TV star Rupal Tyagi injured her tailbone while working on a promotional shoot for the show Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke. While coming down the stairs, Rupal lost her balance and fell down from the stairs.
ER actress Maria Bello broke her tailbone while snowboarding. She was on holiday in Sun Valley, Idaho with her nine-year-old son Jackson Blue when she fell and badly injured her tailbone.
Professional cyclist Andréas Klöden, who finished second in the 2004 Tour de France, crashed on the fifth stage of the 2007 Tour and injured his coccyx. He was taken to hospital for a scan, and told that he had a hairline fracture of the coccyx. He had injured his coccyx three years before. Despite his injury, he continued to race in the 2007 Tour.
Belgian tennis star Kim Clijsters had to stop playing tennis for some days with a bruised tailbone suffered when she took a header over her Great Dane. "Very silly," she wrote on her blog. "While I was playing football at home with [boyfriend] Brian ... and the dogs, I tripped over Diesel—the biggest one—and fell badly."
Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation) broke her tailbone while shooting the episode "Power Play". She was doing her own stunt in a scene where the crew is thrown backward by an energy force.
The actor Burt Reynolds injured his tailbone doing a stunt going over a waterfall during the filming of Deliverance "I went over the falls and the first thing that happened I hit a rock and cracked my tailbone, and to this day it hurts."
Author: Jon Miles
Updated 2024-12-07