Pain After Prostate Cancer Surgery
Pain After Prostatectomy: What is the Cause?
Dear Dr. Motola,
I'm experiencing coccyx pain 4 to 9 weeks after radical prostatectomy and it is very debilitating. Is this a reported problem with some patients after such surgery?
Histopathology indicated that cancer is specimen confined and MRI, CT and total body bone scan do not reveal any extraprostatic disease nor metastatic involvement of skeleton. Lymph nodes and seminal vesicles are not involved.
Is it possible that pelvic floor exercises are causing the problem due to pull of muscle...
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