I was snowboarding today and landed right on my tailbone. What to do?

Hi. I was snowboarding and landed on my tailbone on a slick patch of ice. There is no bruising but it hurts a ton. What to I do and what is the injury?

well by tailbone you must mean the bottom end of your spine. This is known as the coccyx (forgive me if that is not spelt right). It is very open to injury, only skinf protects it from injury. It is extremely unlikey you have broken it but by landing on a near-naked bone you will have briused it quite heavily. You will probably not see any bruising due to the lack of blood vessels or veins in that patch of skin over your coccyx (bruising is a result of blood weeping out under the surface of your skin). However a bruised bone is always pretty painful. Iy should die down in a few hours, a day would be the maximum but that would require a serious beating to the bone. You might find if you sit down for too long it hurts. All in all this is not really something to worry about.

that happened to me last year. the best thing to do is put cold on it and tale asprin. it may hurt for a week or two before it gets better

sorry to say but if you have hurt your tailbone, it will hurt for weeks.. if you have fractured it, you wont sit down again ever... get a VERY soft cushion

yeah i do know from falling in cheering and gymnastics that tailbones take a longgg time to heall!! mine took like 5 weeks! i mostly iced it and laid down try not to bend or be active.

That's hard to break, its probably bruised. Ice it, sit down slowly, just take it easy, and give it several days.

just chill for a bit. tailbone impacts usually hurt and could be something like a bone bruise, but if you can walk and move fine just with pain you will be alright

ice it and let the bone relax you will be fine if you dont do alot of moving or sometimes moving it around is good for it

probably bruised/broke your tail bone. Hurts like hell, i know. Suck it up. Ibuprofen and weed are good medication.

if ur tail bone is injured it could be dangerous i recommend going to the clinic maby for an x ray if the pain donsent sease

IDK, mabie you should go to the freakin E.R.