{"id":662,"date":"2013-11-23T19:30:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T00:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/?page_id=662"},"modified":"2014-03-25T13:36:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T17:36:56","slug":"muscle-energy-for-the-coccyx","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/articles\/muscle-energy-for-the-coccyx\/","title":{"rendered":"Muscle Energy For The Coccyx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I would like to relate a \u201cnew\u201d muscle energy treatment taught and explained to me by Derek Jones, D.O., Family Practice resident at Westview Hospital.\u00a0 Derek and I exchange osteopathic treatments and ideas every few weeks.\u00a0 We continually try to explain what we have learned in school and in practice and improve our treatments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This treatment is for coccydynia.\u00a0 The patient will show up with coccyx pain on sitting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The treatment begins with the patient seated.\u00a0 The operator is behind the patient.\u00a0 The operator slides a finger outside the patients clothing under the buttocks in the midline until the tip of the finger is resting on the end of the coccyx.\u00a0 Flex or extend the patient in the sagittal plane until the motion occurs at the tip of the coccyx.\u00a0 The operator then gently motion tests the coccyx movement left and right to find the restriction.\u00a0 Gently hold the coccyx in the motion of greatest restriction (directly against the barrier).\u00a0 Have the patient take a deep breath and hold it (this increases intrathoracic pressure).\u00a0 Then have the patient bear down as if they were trying to have a bowel movement.\u00a0 This will activate the pubococcygeus muscle and begin to change the coccyx.\u00a0 Have the patient hold the breath and muscle effort for 3-5 seconds or until a change is noted.\u00a0 Then have the patient breathe out and rest.\u00a0 Repeat these steps until a full release is noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to relate a \u201cnew\u201d muscle energy treatment taught and explained to me by Derek Jones, D.O., Family Practice resident at Westview Hospital.\u00a0 Derek and I exchange osteopathic treatments and ideas every few weeks.\u00a0 We continually try to explain what we have learned in school and in practice and improve our treatments. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":634,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-662","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/662\/revisions\/834"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}