This paper adds to our current knowledge that acupuncture techniques can be a useful method for breech version. In this study acupuncture interventions, including moxibustion were compared against a ‘watch and wait’ approach to women with a foetal breech presentation at 33 weeks gestation. Acupuncture was shown to be more effective and less costly- even when compared with external cephalic version (manual manipulation of the abdomen before labour), thus reducing the need for caesarean sections.
van den Berg, I. et al., 2010. Cost-effectiveness of breech version by acupuncture-type interventions on BL 67, including moxibustion, for women with a breech foetus at 33 weeks gestation: a modelling approach. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 18(2), 67-77.
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