Coccydynia was a common diagnosis for many types of low back pain in the early 1900s. Surprisingly, at that time, radical coccyectomy was the procedure of choice for low back pain. Later, another extreme theory emerged suggesting that the condition was a symptom of neurosis because it affected women more than men. The consensus was that if a cocciectomy failed to relieve the pain, the condition was considered psychosomatic. For this reason cocciectomies were no longer generally performed. Since then, research on coccydynia has been limited