Build a Physician-Led Postpartum Recovery Program
Most postpartum recovery conversations start too late.This one started with a woman who collapsed trying to get upstairs after birth.She had been discharged home after a complicated delivery. No rehab...
20 Touko 1h 42min
Endurance runner's experience with home health OT after C-section
Four days after her C-section, Jenna couldn’t lie flat. She was short of breath. Her blood pressure kept climbing. She went to OB triage and was told to go home and rest. Instead, she went to the main...
6 Touko 1h 2min
The Leaders Bringing Early Rehab to Maternity Care
Across the country, occupational and physical therapists are beginning to bring early rehabilitation to maternity units. In this panel, hospital-based clinicians share how they built programs for high...
19 Huhti 1h 6min
Why RCTs Fail Rehab Research and How Implementation Science Wins | Amy Lamb & Alyson Stover
Why do randomized controlled trials often miss the mark for rehabilitation research? How can occupational therapy and physical therapy show system level value in maternal health, postpartum care, and ...
10 Marras 20251h
Trauma-Informed Pelvic Health Training for Birth and Beyond
Occupational therapists Lindsey Vestal, OTR/L and Lara Desrosiers, MSc. OT Reg. (Ont.) share how trauma can impact the experiences that mothers have after birth and the work of rehab therapists provid...
15 Syys 202538min
The First 7 Days
Jenna and Rebeca Segraves discuss why they advocate through Enhanced Recovery After Delivery for occupational and physical therapy to be accessible to moms within the first 7 days of giving birth.Lear...
4 Heinä 20251h 10min
What moms don't learn in the hospital after c section
Dr. Addy Javes, PT, DPT is an acute care physical therapist and author of what is considered to be the first case report published in the U.S. on physical therapy in the hospital after birth. She shar...
14 Touko 202535min
