Can a broken tailbone cause paralysis?

For simple tailbone fracture, it usually does not lead to paralysis, because there is no spinal nerve in the place of tailbone. Tailbone fracture mainly causes pain and discomfort in the sacrococcygeal area, and open tailbone fracture may also damage the rectum, causing local bleeding and infection, etc. The degree of tailbone fracture can be determined by CT examination of the sacrococcygeal area. If there is a tailbone fracture and the clinical manifestation is paraplegia in addition to sacrococcygeal pain, it is necessary to further search for the cause of paralysis, which may be a combination of tailbone fracture and lumbar vertebrae fracture dislocation, compression of spinal cord nerves or pelvic fracture damage to the nerves, and improve the relevant parts of the CT or magnetic resonance imaging examination if necessary. For simple tailbone fracture, most cases can be bed rest for a month of conservative treatment, pain can choose painkillers, such as Lovenox extended-release tablets and other symptomatic treatment.