You are of course more than welcome for an appointment with me to take a look at your tailbone problems.
Although I treat a lot of people with tailbone problems, I am of course not the only therapist that treats tailbone pain. If you are looking for a colleague in your area, please continue reading and I will expain you how to find one that had the same basis training that I received. Our basic training is the same, the experience in treatting the tailbone and how holistic the approach is, can be different.
Real experts in tailbone treament are scarce and for that reason people from everywhere in the Netherlands and even Germany and Belgium travel to the place I work in Amsterdam and people even bring family members from abroad to here for therapy. Also I get requests for online consultations from multiple continents and was able to help people with tailbone pain form countries like Canada, Colombia, Brazil, Spain and even China.
I work in Amsterdam Zuid at Fysiotherapie Van Breestraat, just south of the Vondelpark. Our practice is part of the health center Dufayhuis, which is based in the former school building at the square. The address is Dufaystraat 19.
In the menu you can access the page Tarieven (under Informatie) where you can find all info about what insurance companies we signed a contract with and if your treatments are being covered or not. In any case you need to have an extra package (‘aanvullende verzekering’) for coverage by health insurance, otherwise you are privately billed.
Although generally the results are good, I cannot predict the outcome for you.
I do have a few guarantees for you when you are in treatment with me:
1) You and your problem will be taken seriously and your specific questions about your tailbone pain will be answered
2) You will get an expert in the field with a lot of expertise, treatment skills and experience as a therapist and especially regarding tailbone pain
3) Next to a thorough mechanical analysis of the tailbone and pelvis, there is always room for the holistic view of your problem if you are interested in that
4) That I will do my ultimate best to help you solve your problems and if I won’t be able to, to provide you with other treatment options
If you have any questions or you like to make an appointment with me, feel free to send me and email at roel@roelwilbers.nl or use the contact field below.
Just received an injection or thinking about that? Read this first.
A local injection for tailbone pain is an often suggested treatment with a clinic or hospital. More about that you can find at this page. It has influence on the treatment with me though.
Directly after an injection at the tailbone it is advised not to treat the area. The advise I received from a specialised doctor is not to treat minimally two weeks after the injection and that makes sense because the body need stime to adjust to the new situation. New or different input can interfere with the calming down effect of the medication.
In the period after that the physician can permit treatment again, but the circumstances are not ideal for that. Of course optimising the mobility and position of the tailbone and surroundings can always benefit the functioning and recovery. An optimal treatment trajectory is more than just applying a certain intervention. It is a dynamic process of interaction with the body that every time again needs to be adjusted if the progress is inusufficient. The feedback of the body is essential in this because an increase or decrease of the symptoms indicates what needs to be done in the next session.
When the perception of the most important factor of evaluation, the tailbone pain, is diminished, the effect of the treatment can’t be optimally measured and evaluated. There the effect of the injection can wear off and the time before that happens differs per person and injection, a clear evaluation of the treatment can only be done when the end result of the injection is reached. When during the treatment trajectory the pain increases this can indicate an insufficient treatment, but also that the treatment does help but the wearing off of the injection has the overhand.
Because of these reasons I normally don’t treat after an injection until the effect has stabilised or if there is no effect of the injection after two months.
If you are considering applying for treatment with me but also want to get an injection, know that this has implications for the treatment. If people choose an injection during the treatent trajectory wit me, I have to end the trajectory for some time.
Looking for a colleague closer to your home?
I treat people from all over the Netherlands and also people from other countries travel to Amsterdam to be treated by me. A lot of these people seek for a specialist in the area of taibone pain (which are rare) or didn’t find a solution closer to home. Of course, not everybody is able to travel to Amsterdam though.
There are two courses in the Netherlands that teach the external technique for the tailbone: Rost Therapy (method Meine Veldman) and Profundum (the NIMOC treatment) and both are based on the work of Meine Veldman that started with this form of therapy. I attended both courses and you can find a colleague that finished their training aswell through the websites of the traininginstitutes. The links you can find below. The method of Meine that is taught through Rost Therapy works a bit more direct than the NIMOC and is the technique I personally experience the best results with.
Although I have a broader approach to these problems than most of my specialised colleagues and not every therapist that completed the training also has a lot of experience in this treatment, the techniques I learned in these courses are still the basis of my treatments.
Please note: Make sure to check if the therapist in the list of Rost Therapy attended the course Coccygodynie.
Outside of the Netherlands
The above links are for therapists inside of the Netherlands. If you are living anywhere else in the world, I would recommend you to visit the website coccyx.org where there is a listing of doctors and therapists from all over the world. Some of them I interviewed for my podcast if you want to learn more about them.
You can find that page by clicking on the button below:
National and international experts
Do you want to hear from the experts themselves, including me? Through my podcast you’ll get a lot of information directly from the experts themselves, from the Netherlands and abroad.
You can find the podcast here on my website in the menu under Podcast, and on the bogger podcast platforms at Tailbone Podcast.
Online consultation
After many requests I started offering online consultations. Of course I can’t do actual treatments online, I can make an analysis of the problem together with you and give you a more direct advice about the treatment options and what to look for.
Read here a few experiences of people around the world after their online consultation:
This online consultation is also a great way to do an intake and get an idea of my treatment and if it is worth while visiting me. An e-consultation is also covered by the insurance company (if you have coverage of course).