Effect of Acupressure at the BL67 Spot on the Spontaneous Rotation of Fetus with Breech Presentation
| Author | Azam Hamidzadeh, Zeinab Tavakol, Maryam Maleki, Sakineh Kolahdozan, Ahmad Khosravi, Mahdieh Kiani, Mojtaba Vaismoradi |
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| Published | 2022 |
| Format | Research paper |
TL;DR — An Iranian randomised trial (138 women) reporting that daily acupressure at the BL67 point on the little toe turned far more breech babies head-down than routine care.
A randomised controlled trial published in Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing 18 (2022), pp. 567–572, by researchers at Shahroud University of Medical Sciences and collaborators in Iran and Norway.
Between September 2017 and April 2020, 138 women at 32–35 weeks of pregnancy with an ultrasound-confirmed breech baby were split into two groups of 69. The intervention group received acupressure at the BL67 point (on the little toe) on both feet for ten minutes a day for two weeks; the control group got routine care. The authors report the baby turned head-down in 82.6% of the intervention group versus 17.4% of controls, with caesarean rates of 21.7% versus 85.5%, and no difference in newborn Apgar scores. The trial was unblinded.
What it is: a single peer-reviewed, unblinded RCT in a complementary-medicine journal. The effect size is very large, and the result should be weighed against the wider literature on BL67 stimulation, which is mixed.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
6 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.