Tailbone Doctor: for TAILBONE PAIN (Coccyx 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. 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 Center"  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, every month many patients with tailbone pain fly in from distant states and occasionally from other countries.

If you are interested in having an evaluation by Dr. Foye, then: CLICK HERE.

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 fractures (fractured coccyx, "broken tailbone", chipped tailbone, "cracked tailbone")
• Tailbone dislocations (dislocated coccyx)
• Tailbone sprains (sprained coccyx)
• Tailbone injuries from pregnancy (coccyx injuries while pregnant or from childbirth, labor and delivery)
• Tailbone injuries from sports (skateboarding, skiing, snowboarding, roller skating, football, basketball, etc.).
• 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.)
  

• Tailbone x-rays (coccyx x-rays, including comparing x-rays while standing versus sitting)
• Tailbone MRI (coccyx MRI, sacrum-pelvis MRI, pelvic MRI, lumbosacral MRI)
• Tailbone CT scans (coccyx CT scans, sacrum-pelvis CT scans, pelvic CT scans)
• Bone scans
  
• Coordinating consultations with other specialists
  

• Tailbone cushions (coccyx cushions: wedge cushions, donut cushions, doughnut cushions, other seat cushions, etc.)
• 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.
  

Patrick M. Foye, M.D.

• Director, Coccyx Pain Center (Tailbone Pain Center), 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

• Free, online medical chapter on, authored by Dr. Foye: Tailbone Pain (coccyx pain, coccydynia), including treatments, at eMedicine: www.emedicine.com/pmr/topic242.htm
• 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.)
• www.Tailbone.Info "For Tailbone Information, go to Tailbone.Info"
• Dr. Patrick Foye, M.D.,