Coccyx adjustment Lakeside Chiropractic Joondalup

Indications for coccyx adjustment: restricted coccyx movement, malposition of the coccyx, coccygodynia, coccyx pain

External coccyx push (adjustment)

Patient position: Patient lies prone (face down), thoracic and pelvic drop pieces raised or rolled towel/ Dutchman’s roll under ASIS, Buttock appropriately draped

Doctors position: Stand at the side of the table, fencers stance, facing cephalically (towards head patients head)

Contact point: Thumb contact of cephalic hand (hand towards head)

Segmental contact point: Base of the coccyx

Indifferent hand: Pisiform-hypothenar (palm of hand) contact of the caudal hand (away from the head ) over the thumbnail of the contact hand, with fingers loose over the dorsum ( back) of the contact hand. 

Vector: Inferior- superior

Thrust: Draw tissue/skin slack cephalad direction (towards the head) with both hands. At tension deliver cephalad and slight P-A (posterior to anterior/ back to front) impulse thrust over the coccygeal base. A mixed tissue pull and osseous adjustive technique is produced. 

Internal coccyx adjustment

Patient position: Patient lies prone, thoracic and pelvic drop pieces raised or rolled towel/ Dutchman’s roll under ASIS ( hip bones in front), Buttock appropriately draped

Doctors position: Stand at the side of the table, fencers stance, facing cephalically (towards the head)

Contact point: A digital contact with gloved, lubricated middle finger of the caudal hand (hand away from head). A palmer calcaneal contact of the cephalic hand (hand closest to head) over the upper half of the sacrum.

Segmental contact point: Anterior (front) surface of coccyx, intrarectally (internally thru anus).

Indifferent hand: Palmar calcaneal hand contact of the cephalic hand/ top hand over the upper half of the sacrum.

Vector: Superior- inferior (head to toe) and posterior- anterior (back to front).

Thrust: Intrarectal contact applies tension to the coccyx inferiorly (downwards) and slightly posteriorly (backwards ). Gentle impulse thrust through the contact on the sacrum while simultaneously delivering a gentle and shallow posterior thrust against the coccyx. The thrust is delivered S-I and P-A -Superior- inferior (head to toe) and posterior- anterior (back to front, which creates a long axis distraction at the sacrococcygeal joint. 

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