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The padding supports you by your legs and bum, leaving your tailbone floating above the hard surface of your seat.
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Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2024
Practice this by tucking your tailbone under and then rocking forward.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 13 Sep. 2024
While inhaling, raise your neck backward to look up toward the ceiling while pushing your tailbone out behind you.
—Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 12 Sep. 2024
Excess weight can affect any area of the back, including the cervical spine (neck), thoracic spine (upper and mid-back), lumbar spine (lower back), and the sacrum and coccyx (posterior pelvic wall and tailbone).
—Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 1 Aug. 2024
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Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2024
Practice this by tucking your tailbone under and then rocking forward.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 13 Sep. 2024
While inhaling, raise your neck backward to look up toward the ceiling while pushing your tailbone out behind you.
—Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 12 Sep. 2024
Excess weight can affect any area of the back, including the cervical spine (neck), thoracic spine (upper and mid-back), lumbar spine (lower back), and the sacrum and coccyx (posterior pelvic wall and tailbone).
—Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 1 Aug. 2024
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“Tailbone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tailbone. Accessed 6 Oct. 2024.
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tailbone
noun
tail·bone
ˈtā(ə)l-ˌbōn 
: coccyx
Medical Definition
tailbone
noun
tail·bone
-ˈbōn, -ˌbōn
1
: a caudal vertebra
2
: coccyx
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