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SUMMARY:Learn How They Pitched It: Your Maternal Rehab Presentation Template
DESCRIPTION:I was in a Zoom meeting with the lead OT and PT of the acute care maternal rehab program at one of the leading academic medical centers in the U.S.  \nThey were explaining how they started a service line that offers rehab to mothers during hospital admission after birth when they noticed another need: OB nurses wanted to learn what they were teaching patients in the hospital room with their anatomical pelvic model.  \nDuring a treatment session\, a nurse had observed the therapist use the pelvic model with a new mom after a perineal tear and discuss the pelvic health treatment plan she created for her. The nurse left the room and when the therapist ended her session\, she was met with a team of OB nurses at the nurse’s station on the mother baby unit. They wanted to see the pelvic model and learn the pelvic floor education that the therapists were providing to women after vaginal delivery before discharge. What started as an acute care maternal rehab program expanded into an interdisciplinary postpartum recovery model led by occupational therapists\, physical therapists\, OB nurses\, and OB/GYNs.  \nThe Pelvic Health Network’s Postpartum Recovery Hospital Directory tracks 128 facilities that offer rehab services on the maternity unit. These programs have quickly grown into a movement that is expanding access to early recovery care after birth in hospitals\, home health\, outpatient clinics\, and virtual care. In every setting where a therapist was willing to build the referral pathway\, clinicians have learned the fundamental skill that gets buy-in from the maternal care team: how to communicate the value to mothers earlier after birth.  \nIn our workshop on Tuesday\, June 16 at 7 PM ET\, therapists will receive the presentation template to communicate their role\, and learn what to include\, who to invite\, and how to build the case for early maternal rehab in every setting for moms who want access to postpartum recovery care.  \nSee you then\,  \nRebeca Segraves\, Pelvic Health Network \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://pelvichealthnetwork.org/event/learn-how-they-pitched-it-your-maternal-rehab-presentation-template/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260630T180000
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SUMMARY:What Happens When Recovery Waits 6 Weeks? How Early OT and PT Can Support Mental Health After Traumatic Birth
DESCRIPTION:What Happens When Recovery Waits 6 Weeks? How Early OT and PT Can Support Mental Health After Traumatic Birth\nMost patients after traumatic birth are discharged from the hospital without occupational or physical therapy. If postpartum rehab is recommended at all\, they’re told to wait six weeks or more. In that early window\, the hardest parts of recovery happen alone.  \nPelvic pressure. Tailbone pain. Incontinence. Neck\, back\, and shoulder discomfort from hours of feeding. Lactation challenges. Sleep deprivation. Partner fatigue. Hypertension. Uncertainty about what’s normal and what isn’t. Growing distress that has nowhere to go.  \n128 hospitals have decided that’s not acceptable.  \nFrom rural to large metropolitan health systems\, 128 maternity hospitals offer OT and PT to address functional recovery during postpartum admission. Therapists visit mothers in their room\, while holding their baby\, with their families present\, to develop a recovery plan after an unexpected birth event. Mothers share what they feel is needed before they go home\, before questions compound\, before complications grow into anxiety that affect their mental health\, and before they spend 6 weeks wondering if what they feel is their fault.  \nJoin Rebeca Segraves\, PT\, DPT\, PWCS and Jenna Segraves\, PT\, DPT\, NCS\, co-founders of Enhanced Recovery After Delivery®\, for a live discussion and Q&A on what early OT and PT actually changes for postpartum women. Learn how inpatient and outpatient practitioners and practice owners are building the referral pathways to reach moms sooner.  \nWe’ll talk about the clinical model\, the scheduling structures that work inside and outside of the hospital\, and the one thing you can do in your practice to stop waiting for a referral that was never coming.  \nThis event is for the therapist who knows this is your pathway to build. If you’re watching patients get referred to rehab months after birth\, wondering why no one told them sooner\, it’s time to accept that you’re the only clinician who’s going to change it. \n Build something that meets mothers where they actually are.  \nJoin Live. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://pelvichealthnetwork.org/event/what-happens-when-recovery-waits-6-weeks-how-early-ot-and-pt-can-support-mental-health-after-traumatic-birth/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260721T190000
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SUMMARY:What Program Will You Build in 2027?
DESCRIPTION: \nSomewhere in your career\, you’ll watch a patient wait weeks for care they needed in the first 48 hours\, and you’ll wonder why nobody built a faster way to reach them. That question is where program development starts.\n \n \nDuring my women’s health physical therapy residency\, I watched my residency director build rehab’s presence in a world where we were part of prehab before prostatectomy and part of the first week of recovery after mastectomy\, entirely through relationships she spent years building and trust she never stopped earning.\n \n \nWhen our waitlist was five to six weeks out\, she always found a way to get a patient seen sooner.\n \n \nThat same health system later reported saving $815\,000 in avoided readmission costs across over 8\,400 deliveries by offering PT in the hospital and via telehealth after birth. That result started with relationships\, one conversation at a time.\n \n \nProgram development is a relationship skill before it’s anything else. Before you build one\, you have to know what you’re building toward: a pathway for birth recovery\, starting in the hospital and following patients home\, or a pathway for pelvic surgery more broadly\, covering common procedures like hysterectomy for patients who never got automatic referrals the way orthopedic patients do. \n \n \nBoth replace the same outdated standard: the 6-week wait built around medical practice\, not tissue healing\, mental health\, or function.\n\n\nThis session kicks off our new ERAD cohort and it’s the third in a series that’s followed the arc of building a program from the ground up: first to physicians on leading one\, then to therapists on presenting it to their maternal care team\, and now to you on deciding what you’re actually building and where to start.\n \n\nWe’ll cover how to identify which direction fits your setting and how to build the pathway that gets patients seen in week one instead of week six.\n \n\nYou don’t need it figured out before this session. You need to show up with questions on where to begin.\n \n\nSee you soon.\n\n\n– Rebeca Segraves\, PT\, DPT\, PWCS\n\n\nRegister HERE.
URL:https://pelvichealthnetwork.org/event/what-program-will-you-build-in-2027/
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SUMMARY:OTD Capstone: Why I Chose Acute Care Maternal Health
DESCRIPTION:Most mothers leave the hospital with instructions for their incision\, bleeding\, and medications. Few leave knowing whether they can safely care for themselves or their newborn.  \nFor her OTD Capstone\, Dr. Marley Sisler\, OTD\, OTR/L decided to ask different questions before discharge:  \n\nCan this mother safely get in and out of bed after birth or surgery? \nCan she transfer on and off the toilet without increasing pain or risking injury? \nCan she bathe\, dress\, and complete daily activities independently? \nCan she safely lift\, carry\, soothe\, and feed her baby? \nDoes pain\, dizziness\, weakness\, swelling\, or fatigue limit her ability to care for herself or her newborn? \nDoes she understand body mechanics and energy conservation for the first days and weeks after birth? \nAre there functional barriers that could make recovery more difficult once she gets home? \n\nThese questions are rarely answered during a routine postpartum discharge\, yet they often determine whether a mother feels prepared when she walks out the hospital doors.  \nAt WVU Medicine Children’s\, Dr. Sisler identified this gap and helped develop a program where occupational therapists evaluate every patient admitted to the Birthing Center using a preventive\, functional approach beginning on postpartum day one.  \nThe goal wasn’t to find more problems.  \nThe goal was to identify barriers before they become complications\, improve a mother’s confidence caring for herself and her newborn\, and ensure she leaves the hospital with the knowledge and skills needed for recovery at home.  \nAs more hospitals look for ways to improve maternal outcomes\, reduce preventable complications\, and deliver patient-centered care\, functional rehabilitation is becoming an important part of the conversation that Marley will be having with us. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://pelvichealthnetwork.org/event/13515/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T190000
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SUMMARY:OT Student Capstone: Initiating OT and PT after Cesarean Section
DESCRIPTION:We’re highlighting what can happen when an OT student is taught to do more than treat the next patient on the schedule. \nEmily Gill used her doctoral occupational therapy capstone at Banner Gateway Medical Center in Arizona to help initiate both OT and PT after Cesarean birth. \nShe worked with nursing leadership\, OB providers\, and rehabilitation staff to build support for the service\, promote referrals\, and expand access to rehabilitation for mothers during their hospital stay. \nSince January 2026\, the program has generated 43 referrals\, and hospital leadership plans to continue the work after her capstone ends. \nDuring this session\, Emily will share what she did\, who she approached\, what helped move the program forward\, and what she learned about building an interdisciplinary maternal rehabilitation pathway inside a hospital. \nEmily is a recent occupational therapy graduate from A.T. Still University whose work focuses on education\, program development\, and improving access to OT and PT after Cesarean birth. \nJoin us on September 15th at 7 PM ET to hear how one capstone project helped create a pathway for an entire patient population. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://pelvichealthnetwork.org/event/ot-student-capstone-initiating-ot-and-pt-after-cesarean-section/
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