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❌ You sit down at your desk, and within 30 minutes, a deep, sickening, bruised sensation develops right at the absolute base of your spine, between your glutes. When you stand up, a sharp stitch of pain flashes through your tailbone area, making you hunch over for a few steps. You assume you have an inflamed tailbone bone or severe sciatica, so you buy a donut cushion, stretch your glutes out aggressively, and try leaning forward. Yet, the moment you sit down again, that burning ache flares right back up.

Your bones aren't bruised or broken. The deep muscular floor of your pelvis has locked into a high-tension vice-grip that is literally yanking your tailbone out of alignment.

The Anatomy
Deep within your pelvic bowl lies the coccygeus muscle, working alongside the levator ani complex to form your deep pelvic floor. The coccygeus originates from the ischial spine of your pelvis and inserts directly into the lateral borders of your lower sacrum and coccyx (your tailbone). Its primary, evolutionary duty is to support your pelvic visceral organs and pull your tailbone back into position after it naturally flexes during bowel movements or sitting transitions.

The Hidden Trigger
When you spend hours slouched back in soft office chairs, couches, or bucket seats, you place your pelvis into a heavy posterior pelvic tilt. This slouching forces your entire body weight to rest directly onto your tailbone bone rather than your hard sitting bones (ischial tuberosities). To handle this crushing, unnatural pressure, the deep coccygeus muscle undergoes an emergency, high-tension survival spasm.

The Consequence
This contraction triggers The Coccygeal Tug. Because the coccygeus muscle runs directly from your stable hip bones to your highly mobile tailbone, its permanent spasm acts like a tight winch cable. It violently pulls your tailbone forward and inward, locking the sensitive sacrococcygeal joint into a state of severe, chronic compression. Every time you sit down or stand up, your surrounding deep nerves are pinched against the misaligned bone, sending a deep, burning referred pain through your glutes that perfectly mimics sciatica or piriformis syndrome.

How to Break the Cycle
The External Sacrotuberous Release: Stop rolling your main glutes. Lie on your back, take a firm massage ball, and place it right along the hard edge of your sacrum, just an inch away from your tailbone. Do not sit directly on the tailbone. Let your weight drop onto the ball, and slowly open your knee out to the side 10 times to release the deep fascial attachments of the pelvic floor.

The Diaphragmatic Deep Pelvic Drop: Sit tall on your hard sitting bones. Inhale deeply into your belly, and actively imagine expanding your pelvic floor downward, as if relaxing your bladder completely. Hold that expanded state for 4 seconds on the inhale to stretch the coccygeus.

The Ischial Ergonomic Reset: Adjust your chair so your hips are slightly higher than your knees, forcing your weight onto your sit bones and taking all physical pressure off your tailbone.

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Im a local hairstylist offering services in Brandenburg and Elizabethtown. I worked hard to create a product we can all love and use behind the chair and also retail to our client. From the formula to the design on the label, is all designed and produced by me.

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Have you forgotten to book a massage this week? Grab my last availability for this Wednesday the 20th! This is for Elizabethtown at SPA Professional Associates. Bardstown is fully booked for the rest of the week. I'm here for both therapeutic massage or Manual Lymphatic Drainage! The easiest way to book is online (Etown only): https://www.massagebook.com/therapists/kimblackwelderlmtllc

You can also text me at 502-275-1219 but please include your first and last name and desired time slot. If you're in Bardstown and want to book for next week and beyond, send me a text!

Have a lovely week, everyone! 🌞

Neck HURTS = Foot PROBLEM.

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TRUTH: If the left side of your neck HURTS,
you might need to loosen your right foot.

“Don’t believe me?!??”

Try this:

From a standing position with toes facing forward, shift your bodyweight to your right side. What you most likely notice, is that your left foot turns a little bit.

Since everything is connected, here is is why that happens.

1. When you shift weight to the right, the LEFT side of your pelvis swings forward a little. This twists your pelvis over the right leg. We call this relative internal hip rotation.

2. As a result, the arch on your RIGHT foot gets higher and more rigid, the left will flatten easier.

3. Because our spine (via the sacrum) attaches between your pelvic bones, your lower back bends to the left.

4. As a result the LEFT shoulder is forced to raise, this loads the muscles on the side of your neck eccentrically.

IN SIMPLE TERMS…it forces them to hold on to your BIG HEAD all day long.

This means…

- they get tired
- they get weak
- YOU feel stiffness, tightness and PAIN.

You may also get FRUSTRATED because unless you get your foot, hips, and head on the same page this can be a CHRONIC PROBLEM.

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