How can rehabilitation professionals enhance postpartum recovery during the first six weeks after birth across hospitals, home, virtual, and clinic settings?
Enhanced Recovery After Delivery® (ERAD®) is an evidence-based pathway focused on improving recovery during the earliest and most vulnerable phase after childbirth. This monthly information session is designed for occupational and physical therapists, birth professionals, and healthcare leaders who want to strengthen postpartum recovery within hospitals and extend care beyond discharge into home-based, virtual, and outpatient settings.
In our monthly sessions, we will discuss:
- Why the first six weeks postpartum are critical for function, safety, and long-term outcomes
- How inpatient rehabilitation is being integrated into maternity care and positioned as the starting point for postpartum recovery
- How hospitals and clinics are building continuity with home-based, virtual, and outpatient postpartum rehab services
- What early recovery looks like after different birth experiences, including cesarean birth, postpartum hemorrhage, perineal trauma, levator ani injury, pelvic girdle dysfunction, high-risk pregnancy admission, and perinatal loss
- How rehabilitation professionals are advancing their clinical role from direct patient care to program development and system-level impact resulting in career expansion for future therapists
- How outpatient and virtual care therapists are collaborating with birth professionals on pregnancy prehab and birth preparation programs to prioritize the information that mothers have access to about their birth experience and recovery plan prior to delivery.
These monthly sessions will introduce the ERAD® training and leadership pathways available to clinicians and hospitals interested in developing or expanding early postpartum rehabilitation services.