TAILBONE PAIN: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut
Do you have TAILBONE PAIN? Does someone you know have TAILBONE PAIN?
TAILBONE PAIN is also called coccyx pain, or coccydynia.
TAILBONE PAIN can often be severe and it can persist for years.
TAILBONE PAIN
is often very frustrating for patients, especially if the patients and
their doctors do not know how best to treat it.
TAILBONE PAIN often
compromises the quality of life for the patient and their family.
Fortunately, new treatments are available.
Dr. Patrick Foye, M.D. is a physician (M.D., medical doctor) with special expertise in treating tailbone pain.
He uses a compassionate, thorough approach to evaluating and treating tailbone pain, without surgery.
Dr. Foye has many years of experience treating patients with tailbone pain. He has published impressive results within the medical literature.
Dr. Foye is Director of the Coccyx Pain Service at New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ. (UMDNJ is
the largest public health care university in the United States).
His
medical office is accessible by driving from New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania,
Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland (NJ, NY, NYC, PA, CT, DE, MD), etc. Also, many patients with tailbone
pain fly in from distant states and occasionally from other countries. Click here for directions to the office.
Dr.
Foye’s office phone is # 973-972-2802. (This number is ONLY for making
appointments for in-person evaluations. Sorry, but medical advice can
NOT be given by phone to patients who have not been evaluated yet
within the office. Please schedule an in-person consultation, so that
you may receive a thoughtful, in-person evaluation.)
Tailbone injuries Dr. Foye provides his patients with testing, treatment and advice regarding:
Other tailbone injuries (other types of injury to the coccyx, injured tailbones, trauma to coccygeal bones, bruised coccyx)
Non-traumatic tailbone pain (coccyx pain, aching or discomfort that began without any trauma or injury at all)
Figuring out the causes of your tailbone pain (causes of a sore tailbone, painful coccyx, coccyx bone pain, tail bones that hurt)
Screening for other causes of symptoms of low back pain, buttock pain, pelvic pain, muscle pain, etc. (including screening for pilonidal cysts, coccyx cancer, sciatica, sacroiliac joint pain, lumbosacral facet pain, lumbar disc herniations, piriformis muscle pain, and other problems, etc.)
Tests for Tailbone Pain Dr. Foye helps his patients find the underlying cause of their pain, including an individualized approach that may sometimes (if necessary) include ordering and/or interpreting the following:
Tailbone x-rays (coccyx x-rays, including comparing x-rays while standing versus sitting)
Pain medications (various different types of prescription pain medications taken by mouth)
Tailbone injections (coccyx injections, including using fluoroscopy to guide precisely placed steroid injections, ganglion Impar injections, coccyx nerve blocks, etc.)
Advice regarding coccyx removal surgery (coccygectomy), e.g. as a non-surgeon providing a second opinion in patients previously told that they require surgery. Referral to surgery if truly needed.
If you or someone you know is suffering from Tailbone Pain, you deserve to be seen by a caring physician with expertise in evaluating and treating this condition.
Patrick M. Foye, M.D.
Director, Coccyx Pain Service (Tailbone Pain Service), UMDNJ: New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
Associate Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R)
Board Certified: American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R)
Board Certified: American Board of Independent Medical Examiners, 1999-2004
Board Certified: American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine (EMG, Nerve Studies, etc)
Board Certified: Pain Medicine (Sub-Specialty Pain Board certification, via the American Board of PM&R and the American Board of Anesthesiology)
Additional Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Responsibilities
Co-Director, Outpatient Musculoskeletal Medicine
Co-Director, Musculoskeletal/Pain Fellowship
Co-Director, Back Pain Clinic
Chairman, Undergraduate Medical Education Committee
Director, Medical Student Clerkships
National Managing Editor, eMedicine, PM&R division.
Member of the Medical Examiners’ Panel, for the State of New Jersey
Please take a moment now to provide your email address, below. Dr. Foye is setting up an electronic newsletter to be sent out a few times per year. That way you can stay up to date on developments regarding the evaluation and treament of tailbone pain. You may also provide feedback regarding this website. (But please note that this is not the forum for medical questions regarding a specific patient.)
Further updates will be coming to this web site. Please "bookmark" this page and check back regularly.
Meanwhile, additional information on non-surgical treatment of tailbone pain (coccyx pain, also called coccydynia or coccygodynia) can be found at the following web sites:
www.TailboneDoctor.com (TailboneDoctor.com is the current web site of Dr. Patrick Foye, M.D., a physician with special expertise in treating tailbone pain without surgery. He is in New Jersey.)
Patrick Foye, M.D., Director of Coccyx Pain Service PM&R at UMDNJ: New Jersey Medical School 90 Bergen St, DOC Suite 3100, Newark, New Jersey, USA, 07103
Disclaimer: This web site is for general informational purposes only. The information should not be considered as medical advice. The information is not a substitute for appropriate in-person care by a healthcare provider with expertise in evaluating and treating tailbone pain.
