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Electroacupuncture at Sanyinjiao Sp-6 helps with labour pain
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A Chinese study has concluded that electroacupuncture (EA) at Sanyinjiao SP-6 is an effective way of decreasing labour pain
Acupuncture helps with pain of episiotomy
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
Italian clinicians have successfully used acupuncture to relieve perineal pain after episiotomy.
Acupuncture as breastfeeding support
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
An Italian pilot study has found that acupuncture can support women in maintaining breastfeeding for longer.
Sanyinjiao SP-6 acupressure helps with labour pain
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
Acupressure can reduce pain during the active phase of labour, according to a randomised controlled trial carried out by Swedish researchers in a public hospital in India. Two hundred and twenty-two women were randomised to receive one of three interventions: acupressure at Sanyinjiao Sp-6 on both legs during contractions over a 30-minute period (acupressure group), light touch at the same point o ...
Acupuncture not effective for post-term induction
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A Danish team has concluded that acupuncture may not be effective for the induction of labour in post-term women. In a double-blind multicentre randomised controlled study, 125 healthy women with uneventful pregnancies at gestational week 41(+6) were randomised into two groups. The intervention group received acupuncture twice on the same day at Baihui DU-20, Zhiyin BL-67, Hegu L.I.-4 and Sanyinji ...
Acupuncture for labour pain
Categories: Pregnancy & labour, Pregnancy & Labour
Current evidence from RCTs does not support the use of acupuncture for controlling labour pain, according to a systematic review from Korean authors. Ten RCTs involving 2038 women were included. Meta-analysis showed that acupuncture was not superior to minimal acupuncture at one hour and at two hours. Patients reported significantly reduced pain by 4% and 6% during electroacupuncture (EA) treatmen ...
MOXIBUSTION AND ACUPUNCTURE NO BENEFIT FOR BREECH OR ART
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A Swiss study of moxibustion for breech version has found no beneficial effect. The RCT, involving 212 women between 34 and 36 weeks gestation, compared two weeks of daily moxibustion at BL-67 with expectant management. The percentage of external cephalic versions was similar between the two groups (18% for moxibustion vs 16% for the control group) and the frequency of caesarean delivery was simil ...
Acupuncture effective alternative for pregnancy depression
Categories: Psychological / emotional, Pregnancy & labour
Acupuncture is an effective treatment for depression during pregnancy, according to a new American study. A hundred and fifty pregnant women with a diagnosis of major depression were randomised to receive 12 sessions of acupuncture consisting of a standardised point prescription specific for depression, or one of two active controls - control acupuncture or massage - over eight weeks. Women who re ...
ACUMOXA FOR BREECH BABIES
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A study has evaluated the effects of acupuncture and moxibustion on the behaviour of breech foetuses. Women were treated by stimulating Zhiyin BL-67 twice a week for 20 minutes. Fourteen cases were treated using both acupuncture and moxibustion, 15 cases by moxibustion and ten cases by acupuncture. In 56% of cases, foetal position converted from breech to cephalic (80% success rate for moxibustion ...
ELECTRO-ACUPUNCTURE EFFECTIVE FOR LABOUR PAIN
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
In a study investigating the efficacy of electro-acupuncture (EA) for relief of labour pain, 36 pregnant women were randomly divided into an EA group and a control group. Two rounds of EA were carried out, one at the beginning of the active phase of labour and one at 7-8cm of cervical dilatation. Hegu L.I.-4 and Sanyinjiao SP-6 were stimulated bilaterally for 20 minutes at a frequency of 2-100 Hz ...
ACUPUNCTURE FACILITATES NATURAL BIRTH
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
Acupuncture significantly reduces duration of labour and reduces the need for augmentation of labour with contraction-stimulating drugs. A study randomised 100 women with spontaneous rupture of membranes at term to either acupuncture or no acupuncture. Treatment was individualised on the basis of traditional Chinese medical diagnosis and used three points per patient from a pool of nine possible c ...
MOXIBUSTION AT ZHIYIN BL-67
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
An Italian obstetrician has carried out a study into the application of moxibustion at Zhiyin BL-67 for the treatment of breech presentation in pregnancy. Francesco Cardini and Huang Weixin divided 130 women (in the 33rd week of their first pregnancy) in two Chinese hospitals into two groups. Those treated with moxibustion (for 7 consecutive daily treatments with seven more if needed) experienced ...
ACUPUNCTURE AND CHILDBIRTH
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
In a study carried out in Sweden, the analgesic effect of acupuncture during childbirth was assessed by comparing the need for other pain treatments such as epidural analgesia, nitrous oxide/oxygen etc. in 90 women given acupuncture (acupuncture group) compared with 90 women not given acupuncture (control group). 52 women (58%) in the acupuncture group and 13 (14%) in the control group managed the ...
ACUPUNCTURE IN CHILDBIRTH
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A study carried out at The Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Vienna has shown that prenatal acupuncture can reduce the duration of the first stage of labour (196 minutes versus 321 minutes in a control group), but not the second stage of labour, can significantly reduce use of oxytocin in both the first and second stages, and significantly raise serum levels of prosta ...
ACUPUNCTURE & LABOUR
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A German study has compared the morphologic features and duration of labour in 878 women with at least 36 weeks of uncomplicated pregnancy after receiving a) active acupuncture (329 primiparas), b) nonspecific acupuncture (224 women), or c) no acupuncture treatment (325 primiparas). Women who received specific acupuncture experienced significantly shorter labour times (470 +/-190 minutes) compared ...
ACUPUNCTURE & MORNING SICKNESS
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A study of 593 women at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, who were less than 14 weeks pregnant and suffered from symptoms of nausea or vomiting, compared traditional acupuncture, simple acupuncture at Neiguan P-6 only, sham acupuncture and no acupuncture. The acupuncture patients received two 20-minute sessions of acupuncture in the first week followed by one weekly treatme ...
ACUPUNCTURE DURING LABOUR
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A study was conducted to see if acupuncture can influence cervical ripening, induce labour and reduce the need for induction. 45 women were randomly assigned to an acupuncture or a control group on their due date. In the acupuncture group, women were needled at Hegu L.I.-4 and Sanyinjiao SP-6 bilaterally every other day, until they either gave birth or, if the due date was exceeded by 10 days, wer ...
ACUPUNCTURE EFFECTIVE FOR LABOUR PAIN
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A study carried out at Orebro University Hospital in Sweden has found that women who received acupuncture during labour were less likely to ask for an epidural to relieve pain (12% compared to 22%) and felt more relaxed than women who did not receive acupuncture. 46 women were randomised to receive acupuncture during labour, and reported at least once an hour how much pain they were experiencing a ...
ACUPUNCTURE & MORNING SICKNESS
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
A study of 593 women at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, who were less than 14 weeks pregnant and suffered from symptoms of nausea or vomiting, compared traditional acupuncture, simple acupuncture at Neiguan P-6 only, sham acupuncture and no acupuncture. The acupuncture patients received two 20-minute sessions of acupuncture in the first week followed by one weekly treatme ...
ACUPUNCTURE AND LABOUR PAIN
Categories: Pregnancy & labour
Obstetricians from Norway have said that acupuncture is the analgesic method of choice for reducing labour pain, whether supplemented by pharmacological pain-killers or not. 210 mothers in spontaneous labour were randomly assigned to receive either real acupuncture or false acupuncture. The results were tested by assessing their request for pharmacological pain-relief, and on their perception of p ...
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