Moxibustion treatment of breech presentation

Breech presentation was successfully corrected by stimulating acupuncture p oints with moxibustion or low-frequency electrical current. Only patients w ith breech pregnancies at the 28th week or later were entered into the stud y. With moxibustion treatment, the control group had a spontaneous correcti on rate of 165/224 (73.66%), and the treatment group had a correction rate of 123/133 (92.48%) (P<0.0001, x(2) test). With low-frequency percutaneous electrical stimulation, the correction rate was 20/941 (83.87%) in the cont rol group and 171/191 (89.52%) in the treatment group (P=0.094, x(2) test), The controls in the moxibustion study did no exercises and received no ext ernal manipulation to correct breech presentation whereas those in the elec trical stimulation study experienced both. Acupuncture stimulation, especia lly with moxibustion, is expected to serve as a safe and effective modality in the management of breech presentation in a clinical setting.