Many patients are not taken seriously with their problems and pain and after mostly having gone through a long ordeal with many therapists, examinations and therapeutic approaches, they haven’t received a real diagnosis or treatment
– Achim Benditz
Guest in this episode is Prof. Dr. Achim Benditz. He lives and works in Germany and is head of Orthopaedics and Spine Surgery in a hospital in the south of Germany in the Bayern region. Next to that, he runs an orthopaedic spine clinic for two days per week. His career started almost 20 years ago and he became an orthopeadic doctor and surgeon, with specialties in among others, spine related problems and treatment and of course tailbone pain. He has ten years of experience with this condition, saw around 4000 coccydynia patients and performed over 300 tailbone surgeries. People come to see him for his expertise and treatments through injections and surgical removal of the tailbone from all over Germany, and also more and more from all over Europe.
Achim alsohas a lot of experience as a scientist. He is the author or co-author of close to 100 published articles and a few of them are about tailbone pain. In them he is able to clearly explain the diagnosing and medically treatment of tailbone pain. He also has his own info channel on YouTube called Ortho Daily Five with nearly 50 videos about all kinds of medical problems, and of course there is also one about tailbone pain and even one where he shows the surgical procedure of removing the tailbone (see below).
In this episode we are going to learn how he encountered quite some resistance among his medical colleagues to become a tailbone specialist and to get his papers about it published. Also we will dive deeper into what he hears from patients and the hardships they have gone through to finally find specialised help, or even just someone in the medical field that takes their them and their problems seriously and recognises it as an actual problem of the tailbone.
Resourses
More info about tailbone pain you can find on Achim’s website by clicking here.
On his YouTube Channel Ortho Daily Five, he shares two interesting video’s about tailbone pain. In the first he explains about what it is about and this is (together with the German version, viewed over 10.000 times.
He also has a video of how a tailbone surgery, the coccygectomy, is being performed.
Achim wrote a lot of articles about tailbone pain and this is an excellent read:
Coccygodynia – Diagnosis and Treatment in the German Doctors Magazine.
Consultations by Achim
Achim works in Germany and you can find out more about that over here.
His patients are very happy with him and his work philosophy is that ‘the happy patients make my work enjoyable every day again’. In this interview you can clearly tell he is a very dedicated physician that has a lot of attention for the problem and the human behind it. Below a picture from his website of what two grateful patients gave him:
Get in touch
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