Treatment of intractable coccygodynia by transsacral ammonium chloride injection.

HE PATIENT with coccygodynia is often T abandoned because of the failure of recommended conservative treatment and the physician’s hesitancy to recommend more radical forms of therapy. Furthermore, mutual dissatisfaction often leaves the patient labeled as neurotic and the physician as inadequate. Both perceptions result from frustration with current therapeutic vogues and handicap continued therapeutic efforts.