Acupressure to Reduce Labor Pain

Oxytocin administration during spontaneous labor: Guidelines for clinical practice. Chapter 3: Interventions associated with oxytocin administration during spontaneous labor

“…We will therefore discuss each article individually. There were 4 randomized trials of acupressure during labor [96][97][98][99]. The interventions and the groups analyzed were different in each study (LE2).…”

“…That is, 3 articles studied acupressure vs routine care [96][97][98], 3 compared it with light touch, a placebo (touching the area targeted by the study) [97][98][99], and one studied acupressure vs electroacupuncture [96]. Three studies assessed stimulation of the SP point6 [97][98][99] and one tested several acupuncture points [96]. One study included more women with ruptured membranes in the intervention group than in the placebo group (50% vs 26.9%), but the authors failed to adjust for this difference [97].…”