Pelvic Health Network Podcast
I discovered something strange about women's health when I learned that people were offered rehab services and recovery plans after ACL repairs, shoulder surgeries, knee and hip replacements, yet women after c-section and hysterectomy were left to figure out how to heal on…
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How an OTD Student Built a Postpartum Rehab Program in a Hospital - Dr. Emily Gill (opens the original)
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Emily Gill laminated referral cards and placed them on every monitor in labor and delivery and the postpartum unit. If OB/GYNs had to remember to order OT and PT manually, she was going to make postpartum rehab hard to forget.Emily developed her OTD capstone around a major gap in Cesarean recovery: mothers spent 2 - 4 days in the hospital yet received very little rehab support before their first postpartum follow-up several weeks later.At Banner Gateway Medical Center, she worked with occupation
Dr. Marley Sisler, OTD, OTR/L: "Every Mother Gets Rehab" (opens the original)
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It started with mothers on ECMO at WVU Medicine, a Level 1 trauma center. Dr. Marley Sisler had a capstone idea for her doctoral degree in occupational therapy. Today, mothers at her hospital after every vaginal and Cesarean delivery, live and stillbirth, receive an evaluation of their mental health and functional recovery by a rehab therapist. The postpartum recovery program she built has reached more than 6,000 OB patients. This is how one therapist turned a research question into a service li
Why This Physiotherapist Started Preparing Women Before Surgery | Hannah Poulton (opens the original)
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When I first discovered Hannah Poulton's work, what impressed me wasn't simply that she specializes in scar rehabilitation. It was that she questioned why women were expected to recover without first being prepared for surgery. After 25 years as a physiotherapist, including 17 years with the NHS, Hannah left a successful leadership career to build an internationally recognized practice focused on scar rehabilitation, patient education, and earlier recovery. Today she teaches clinicians around th
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