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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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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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SUMMARY:Occupational Therapists Are Changing When Rehab Starts After Birth
DESCRIPTION:Seven days after an unplanned C-section and a hospital readmission for postpartum hypertension. The first person to look into her eyes and ask how she’s doing isn’t her doula\, isn’t her OB\, and isn’t her partner. It’s her occupational therapist\, kneeling by the edge of her bed\, asking about her thoughts\, her body\, her pain\, and her ability to care for her baby.  \nThat visit didn’t exist a few years ago. Someone had to build it.  \nThe Texas Occupational Therapy Association is bringing the Enhanced Recovery After Delivery® Training to its 2026 Annual Conference\, ‘Grow an OB Rehab Program in the Hospital and Home’ for rehab professionals around the country to attend.  \nThis info session is about what becomes possible when you bring your expertise into a hospital or home health setting for families during high-risk pregnancy and immediately after birth and what it means to be the person who builds a pathway for their care instead of waiting for someone else to.  \nIf you’ve ever looked at a postpartum patient and felt like something was missing from her plan\, this is for you. \nRegister Here \n 
URL:https://pelvichealthnetwork.org/event/occupational-therapists-are-changing-when-rehab-starts-after-birth/
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SUMMARY:Connecting the Dots: Leveraging ED Advocacy to Build a Day-One Postpartum Therapy Program
DESCRIPTION:Program development in acute care often feels like uncharted territory\, but the strategies for success remain the same across every unit.  \nTo successfully launch a new therapy service\, you have to master the art of clinical advocacy and learn how to speak the language of hospital physicians. In this webinar\, Dr. Addy Javes will share the strategies and lessons learned from her program development journey\, and how launching an Emergency Department therapy program paved the way for her hospital’s acute obstetric therapy service. \nWe will discuss the precise mechanics of professional advocacy\, how to tackle doctor skepticism\, and how to successfully pitch a new service line to hospital stakeholders who aren’t used to seeing therapists in their units. \nThe goal isn’t just to share Addy’s story. It is to hand you the exact strategic tools you need to spot hidden gaps\, confidently talk to doctors\, and pioneer high-impact PT and OT programs in your own facility. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://pelvichealthnetwork.org/event/connecting-the-dots-leveraging-ed-advocacy-to-build-a-day-on-postpartum-therapy-program/
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SUMMARY:Post-Operative Pelvic Rehabilitation: Principles Every Clinician Should Know
DESCRIPTION:USA: A woman undergoes a hysterectomy every 60 seconds. A C-section every 27 seconds.\n In the time it takes to read this message\, 3 to 5 women will have had one of these two surgeries. \nEvery day\, about 1\,600 women are recovering from a hysterectomy. Compare that to about 480 patients recovering from an ACL repair\, who get an automatic referral to rehab after surgery. \nAbout 3\,200 women are recovering from a C-section every day without a recovery plan. Compare that to 2\,900 patients who get a plan after a knee replacement. \nEvery 60 seconds\, at least 2 women after C-section and 1 woman after hysterectomy are recovering from two of the most common major surgeries performed on the human body. Most of these patients go home with a follow-up appointment in six weeks\, and no individualized recovery plan before then. \nOnly a small fraction will see a rehab therapist before that six-week mark. Most won’t see one at all unless they advocate for it themselves. \nThis gap has nothing to do with a lack of clinical evidence. It’s a recovery care pathway that was never built for surgeries performed during childbirth and before menopause. \nDr. Lori Mize doesn’t believe any woman should wait six weeks after surgery to see a rehab therapist. She trains both OTs and PTs\, who account for the largest workforce in the country trained to restore function after a medical event\, including surgery. \nThe professionals she trains treat patients earlier after abdominal and pelvic surgery – the most common major surgeries performed on women. \nOn August 25th\, Dr. Mize will cover the clinical principles every clinician needs post-operatively. Dr. Rebeca Segraves will cover how to build the pathway that gets patients to you inside that window\, instead of six weeks too late. \nJoin them live on Tuesday\, August 25th\, 7 PM CT / 8 PM ET\, to learn both. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://pelvichealthnetwork.org/event/13606/
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261006T190000
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SUMMARY:A New Birth Plan: Incorporating Pelvic PT Right After Delivery. Lessons Learned When Starting a Program
DESCRIPTION:As a pelvic health acute care PT and a mom of two\, Dr. Meredith Grady\, PT\, DPT knows the gap between what childbirth recovery is supposed to look like and what it actually is\, because she lived it herself.  \nA hard delivery left her with urinary retention\, an unplanned ED visit\, and a pudendal nerve injury that took months to heal. She was the clinician who would have caught it in someone else. Instead\, she became the patient that nobody caught in time.  \nSo she built the program she needed: a full-time pelvic health PT on the postpartum floor at University of Utah Health\, seeing moms within 24 to 48 hours of delivery\, catching urinary retention\, tearing\, nerve injuries\, and mobility issues before they ever leave the hospital.  \nGetting there meant winning over nurses who didn’t know her yet\, earning trust from midwives one conversation at a time\, and proving to a hospital that never had a PT on this unit that the role was worth keeping.  \nIn her live presentation and Q&A\, Dr. Grady will share what that actually looked like from the inside: her own story\, the mistakes she made early on\, and the daily rhythm of a program built specifically around the pelvic floor needs of moms in the first hours and days after birth.  \nCome hear how one PT is changing what postpartum care looks like\, starting with her own hospital and her own recovery. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://pelvichealthnetwork.org/event/a-new-birth-plan-incorporating-pelvic-pt-right-after-delivery-lessons-learned-when-starting-a-program/
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