Tailbone fracture
Title: Tailbone fracture
Category: /Recreation & Sports/Health Care
Details: Words: 848 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Tailbone fracture
Category: /Recreation & Sports/Health Care
Details: Words: 848 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Tailbone Fracture The Coccyx, commonly known as your tailbone is located at the very end of the vertebral column. Your tailbone is the result of four coccygeal bones fusing together as a child forming one single bone. In early revolution it was viewed as a remnant that strongly related us to primates, people believed it was a remnant of a tail. However, your tailbone has a very important function. Your tailbone helps to anchor many
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now put a standard of 50 - - 120 degrees of regained motion after an injury. The average healing time for this Injury is 6-8 weeks and is considered complete when there is no movement at the fracture site or X-rays show complete bone union.
If you look at the Coccyx as just a "tailbone" the importance of this small bone may be blurred, but when it is viewed as a neurological anchor, it all becomes clear.