Coccyx & pelvic pain 100% cured by Dr Michael Durtnall

[Jasmine C]

I started feeling burning tailbone pain four years ago in August 2011 after sitting on a sea-wall and twisting to chat to friends. The pain was soon constant with sitting but also on standing up. Then after a few weeks I started to get worse pain from the tailbone to my perineum and labia. This was a sharp tingling sensation in my perineum and labia and an intense burning feeling at my clitoris and on the skin between there and my urethra and above it with severe electric jabs in the front of my pubis and groin. It even flared when I passed water or if I sat too long or with any slight pressure on my pelvic floor or tailbone.
My GP referred me to an orthopaedic surgeon who offered a cortisone injection which he said would wear off in a few weeks. When I declined he just said don't worry too much and it will eventually get better. He didn't seem to understand much about the tailbone or see any connection with the labia and clitoris burning pain. So I kept reading up about it but nobody mentioned any real improvement, just management with drugs which seem to have miserable side-effects.
Then I found the International pelvic pain society website and did coccyx and pelvic pain searches on Google and then coccyx.org. When I had read what was written by his many happy patients, I decided to see Dr Michael Durtnall, the coccyx and pelvic pain manipulation specialist in London.

After 3 years of suffering I saw Michael at his Kensington clinic. He was immediately engaging and listened carefully to my story, took standing x-rays, did nerve tests and examined my spine and pelvis. He told me I had compressed pelvic pudendal nerves from sitting and lying sideways trying to avoid my clearly dislocated coccyx. He said he successfully treats a lot of patients with multiple pelvic symptoms and says the basic concept of pain medication for pelvic pain is counterproductive because covering-up pain blocks the ability of nerve pathways to regain healthy function and often leads to worse health and addiction to pain meds.
Michael explained that his approach is to upload intense sensory messages into the nervous system to get the parts of your brain that are constantly overwhelmed with messages of pain from your pelvic nerves to 'listen' to his alternating intense and subtle joint and soft-tissue manipulation. This stimulates the brain to reorganise connections to your spinal, pelvic and pudendal nerves and a network of tiny nerves in the deep pelvis to normalise the disturbed pathways.
I have now completed a series of treatments with Michael on my coccyx and pelvis joints with deep soft-tissue manipulation and posture rehabilitation plus internal and external pelvic manual therapy with his team of wonderful pelvic physical therapists, Sofia, Marta and Karolina. I also got advice on pelvic floor and regular rehab exercises and I am now 100% PAINFREE, straighter, fitter, alive again and so grateful to Michael and his team.
Thank you for providing this Pudendalhope forum which has given me the opportunity to share my wonderful experience of resolution of misery to happiness.

[janetm2]

Jasmine,
What a great success story. I am very happy for you and I am sure this will help others. Thanks for sharing.
Janet

[Jasmine C]

In reply to a private message asking me for more details of my treatment, I posted the reply which I copy below:

Dr Durtnall manually manipulated my top coccyx joint which had got dislocated and was calcifying backwards with a twist and a side angulation. Michael initially treated me using internal rectal manipulation which was not embarrassing or painful because he completely put me at ease and told me not to be embarrassed and so I wasn't!
This part took about two minutes each time to get more and more movement followed by firm external pressure to mobilise it forwards and then Michael used a machine to strongly vibrate the surrounding buttock muscles and joints in that area to loosen them up. He adjusted each treatment according to my progress and varied my pelvic exercises which were pretty intense for a very short time every half an hour all day long. There was usually a bit of discomfort for a day or two after each treatment and then it would start to become a good few % better each treatment.
Michael's treatment was alternated seeing one if his amazing physical therapists, Karolina, Sophia and Marta all of whom I saw at different times. They worked on internal pelvic trigger points in my vaginal walls to break down adhesions and trigger points. They also mobilised externally above my clitoris to gently stretch out the tense tissues around the small nerves.
Michael also worked on my spine and set about giving me brilliant posture in the way I sit, stand, walk, work ... everything!
He is a true genius in the way he motivated me to change the way I saw myself and he made me want to be thinner, fitter, stronger out of respect for my own future-self. As another patient wrote in one of the many reviews I read on coccyx.org , 'Michael Durtnall is a legend in his own lifetime'.
I would absolutely recommend Michael to anybody with coccyx and pelvic pain and basically any spinal problem. Jasmine

[Bertie]

I. Noticed Dr Durtnell joined the forum a few weeks ago........glad it worked for you I know of others whom it did not work for who have seen him......

[Alan1646]

Good to hear that he cured you. I went to him myself but unfortunately he wasn't able to help me. It was expensive.