Case Histories from Field Chiropractors

A young man of 16 years was seen with acute coccygeal pain of two years duration. He had a congenital closed sacral pit over the S2 area that ultimately became infected in later years.

As it was misdiagnosed initially as a pilonoidal sinus, it deteriorated with cellulitis requiring surgery. During the healing phase, he adapated his sitting posture to avoid direct coccyeal and sacral contact and thus developed sacral subluxation, costal pain and frequent headaches.

Is his present acute coccygeal pain likely to stem from a sacral subluxation and could the infection have led to its onset by creation of a viscerosomatic reflex?