Breech Position

"Breech Position" Issue / Symptom Connections

Below you will find various relationships to, and potential clinical treatment approaches for breech position.

Content Related to Breech Position

It is critical to appreciate that in Chinese Medicine, treatment for "breech position" is rarely focused on the symptoms exclusively. Alternatively, a practitioner is looking at the factors that led to the development of "breech position" - i.e. the "cause(s)".

For non-practitioners, we recommend reading treating the "cause" and not the "symptoms" for more on the overall approach and the importance of the TCM diagnostic system in formulating treatment approaches.

Related Acupuncture Protocols

When developing an acupuncture protocol a practitioner is very often focusing on the causal diagnoses in Chinese Medicine terms, not on the condition itself. To illustrate and guide developing an acupuncture treatment for someone experiencing breech position, this issue is referenced in the following acupuncture protocol sections:

• View UB 67 (Reaching Yin)
  
      .1 cun posterior to the corner of the nail on the lateral side of the little toe.
  
      Clears pain a/or stagnation from the opposite end of the channel: headache, eye pain, sinus pain, etc. Use with moxabustion to adjust breech fetal position (generally indirect moxa for 10-20 minutes 1x/day).