The podcast about tailbone pain!
In this podcast you will hear the topic explained by experts only and will get solely (at the time of recording) up-to-date and high quality information. It will be delivered directly through the doctors and therapists that are specialised in and actually working with tailbone patients on a regular basis, but also by researchers that have specialised knowledge and the patients that suffer from it.
The episodes are fully aimed at informing the people that suffer from tailbone pain or are interested in this topic and the info will be presented in an accesible way.
Your host in this series is, just as the founder of this website; Roel Wilbers, a Dutch physiotherapist that is specialised in the treatment of tailbone pain and is involved in scientific research about it.
All episodes are in English.
After 5 episodes the podcast was being listened to in 5 different continents and by now there are listeners in more than 20 countries!
This email I received from someone 2500 kilometers from where I live and work:
‘Dear Roel Wilbers,
Thank you for your podcast!
I came across your podcast while searching for information
about the tailbone pain I have been experiencing since giving birth to my child.
I am still searching for reliable information regarding my tailbone condition,
and I wanted to sincerely thank you for the useful information and expertise you share.
Your work has been very helpful and encouraging.’
And these testimonials also came in:
You can listen to the episodes below or, on these podcast platforms:
1. The world of tailbone pain
In this first episode, that aired on tailbone awareness day 2025, you will all about this podcast, why it started and what it will bring you. It is also an introduction into the world of tailbone problems. Some myths and often heard ideas about this will be debunked and you will already get some practical info and tips.
2. Cecile Röst – Physiotherapist
Cecile Röst is a Dutch physio and manual therapist that is specialized in pelvis and tailbone problems. She treated and still treats a lot of patients with tailbone pain, did research on the subject and teaches courses to physiotherapists about the treatment of tailbone pain through her institute.
3. Dorien van Mulligen – Pelvic physiotherapist
Dorien van Mulligen is a physiotherapist, a Cesar exercise therapist and has a masters degree in pelvic physiotherapy. Her working days are fully focused on patients with pelvic girdle pain and pelvic floor muscle complaints such as urination, defecation, sexual problems. More than half these have tailbone pain.
4. Jon Miles – Researcher and patient
Jon is from the UK and a researcher on the topic of tailbone pain. He is the founder of the website coccyx.org, the probably biggest online plaform for tailbone pain worldwide and a very well known person in the tailbone world. He knows a lot about the literature and also unfortunately understands how it is to suffer from coccyx pain because he did so himself for many years. He underwent almost all the therapies out there and finally had it surgically removed in 1999.
5. Sabine – Patient
Sabine has a long history of tailbone pain and visited a lot of therapists and doctors. In this episode she shares how tailbone pain impacted her life, her path to finding an effective therapy and her experiences along the way.
6. Marianne Bleijenberg – Pelvic physiotherapist
Marianne has a masters degree in pelvic physiotherapy and her working days are fully focused on patients with pelvic problems and tailbone pain. She is very experienced and approaches tailbone pain from a very wide approach.
7. Sary van der Hasselt – Osteopath
Sary has a masters degree in osteopathy and she is specialised in pelvic and tailbone pain. She is a last resort for a lot of patients and treats from expansive theoretical knowledge as well as practical experience. She has a very wide approach as an osteopath and shares a great exercise with us in this episode.
8. Roel Wilbers – Physiotherapist
Roel is the host of this podcast and has as physiotherapist specialised himself in tailbone pain over the last 10 years. He treated hundreds of patients with tailbone pain already and nowadays half of his agenda during working days is booked by patients with tailbone pain and they come to see him from all over the country. Roel also is doing scientific research about tailbone pain, writes scientific articles and is a speaker at the World Symposium on Coccyx Disorders this year in Turkey. He shares in this episode his experiences of treating tailbone pain and how to see it in a wider perspective then just mechanical of medical.
9. Marjolein – Patient
Marjolein talks about her path as a patient suffering from tailbone pain and being in a lot of pain and with a lot of restrictions for many years, and where the path of finding adequate treatment led to strong desperation and even suicidal thoughts. Her tailbone problems made her inable to sit and work and in the end had serious implications for her career, sports and social life. In her search for help she often was left with nothing more then: ‘we unfortunately cannot help you anymore’.
In this episode you will get the expert view from the patients perspective. I think that a lot of people suffering from tailbone problems can relate to her story and can find recognition and comfort in her experiences.
10. Elif Gürkan – Medical Doctor
Dr. Elif Gürkan is an experienced Turkish physician that worked in several different countries. She runs her own clinic in Istanbul now and a true specialist on tailbone pain. Elif also is one of the organisers and speakers of the upcoming 5th International Symposium on Coccyx Disorders in Turkey.
Next to having experienced tailbone pain herself, she was one of the pioneers on this topic in her country. She treats tailbone patients for over 25 years now and saw over 3000 patients. In this episode she shares her knowledge, experience and wisdom with us about tailbone pain. We will go into where tailbone pain comes from, what is the underlying mechanism and her experiences treating it through manual mobilisations and injections.
11. Jeroen – Patient
Jeroen is one of the worst cases of tailbone pain I saw in all the years I am treating this condition. Through the years he gained a lot of knowledge about the problem and therapeutic and medical treatments, and tried almost all of them. We especially will dive deeply into the most recent one: the spinal cord stimulation. He will share his journey as a patient about what he encountered in the medical and therapeutic world, and how he managed his pain and problems
12. Achim Benditz – Medical Doctor and Surgeon
Prof. Dr. Achim Benditz is an orthopeadic doctor and surgeon that lives and works in Germany. He is head of Orthopaedics and Spine Surgery in a hospital and runs an orthopaedic spine clinic for two days per week and saw around 4000 coccydynia patients. The last ten years he performed thousands of injections and over 300 tailbone surgeries. Next to that he wrote over 90 scientific articles and several about tailbone pain.
In this episode we will dive into the diagnostics and treatment of tailbone pain through injections and surgery and how patients and doctors experience resistance and misunderstanding on their path. We will dive deeper into the hardships, many doctors visits and feelings of not being taken seriously or receiving a proper diagnosis or treatment that he hears a lot of his patients.
13. World Symposium on Tailbone Pain – Istanbul 2026
The 5th International World Symposium on Tailbone Pain was held in Istanbul – Turkey in July 2026. Here experts from all over the world gather to share and learn from eachother about the diagnostics and treatment of tailbone pain. I was there as one of the speakers and in this episode I am going to take you along in how such a world symposium looks like, what was spoken about and what is important for healthcare professionals but also not medically or therapeutically trained people. I will adress a few of the lectures and the overall message and hope it leaves you inspired and more knowleagable after this episode.
Dr. Foye – Medical Doctor
Dr. Patrick Foye is an American physician with over 25 years of experience and one of the most well known experts in the tailbone world. Next to having treated thousands of patients through injections, he runs a fully specialised clinic on tailbone pain near New York, has published a book about the topic, has an extensive website and social media canals with patient info, lectured about the tailbone to many doctors and wrote a lot of articles and medical textbook chapters about the subject. A true expert that loves to help patients with tailbone pain in may ways. In this first episode we dive into the diagnostics.