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The English physician, Sir James Y. Simpson, was the first to describe coccydynia in 1859. Today one distinguishes between traumatic and idiopathic forms [5, 6, 8, 12]. The latter occurs most commonly in middle-aged women, presenting with episodes of intense pain in the area of the coccyx and distal rectum.
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Stein, E. (2003). Coccydynia. In: Anorectal and Colon Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18977-7_15
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