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The demand for maternal rehabilitation is rising while access remains limited. Across the country, pelvic health and perinatal rehab clinics report waitlists longer than three months, leaving many people without early access to recovery care after birth.

In this webinar, Elle Holmes, MSOT, OTR/L, CEIM, PCES, and Dr. Rebeca Segraves, PT, DPT, WCS, teach clinicians how to transform this challenge into an opportunity to expand maternal rehab services that reach clients sooner—before and after delivery.

Participants will learn practical, evidence-informed strategies for starting or expanding a virtual rehab practice, including:

• How to identify the gaps in traditional postpartum care
• How to design birth preparation and early recovery programs that bridge the six-week gap
• How to use outcome measures, data, and case examples to demonstrate impact and build referral relationships

🎁 Bonus for Attendees:
All registrants will receive a Birth Movement Menu PDF—a creative, evidence-informed resource that illustrates how therapeutic movement can expand choice, autonomy, and participation in recovery. Each menu item represents an option that pregnant and postpartum clients can select based on their needs, goals, and readiness, helping them engage more actively in their birth preparation and early recovery.

The Birth Movement Menu gives OTs and PTs a tangible tool to support shared decision-making and empower clients to take an active role in their healing—whether care is delivered virtually or in person.

🩺 Purpose with Impact: 

In addition to providing actionable business and clinical strategies, 30% of all proceeds from this webinar will support research on early rehabilitation after surgical births, including pelvic floor tissue repair and cesarean deliveries.

Your participation contributes directly to bridging the best available evidence with current practice that hospitals, clinics, and practitioners can use to expand access to timely postpartum rehabilitation—just as they would for any other population recovering from major surgery or changes in function.

Audience:

This webinar is designed for OTs, PTs, and other professionals ready to turn their early recovery expertise into an accessible, sustainable virtual service model that advances access to care for the maternal health population.

Learning Objectives

After completing this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Identify and articulate the current gaps in maternal rehabilitation and communicate how early access to care improves recovery, safety, and patient outcomes.

2. Design and outline a virtual or hybrid care pathway that begins before and after delivery, incorporating examples of early movement, activity, and education interventions.

3. Apply and adapt outcome measures and functional data to demonstrate program effectiveness and communicate value to referring providers, administrators, and payers.

4. Develop and present a clear message that defines their professional role in maternal recovery and positions OT and PT services as essential components of postpartum care.

5. Create an actionable plan to launch or expand a virtual maternal rehab service, including steps for outreach, referral partnerships, and integration into existing systems of care.

About the Authors

Elle Holmes, MSOT, OTR/L, CEIM, PCES

La’Shandra “Elle” Holmes, MSOT, OTR/L, PCES is a Maternal Health Occupational Therapist and owner of Occupational Transitions, LLC, a mobile and virtual women’s and infants health practice serving Rappahannock and Northern Virginia areas. Elle is passionate about supporting women to and through the postpartum period via a multimodal approach to health to include pelvic floor therapy, lactation and breastfeeding support, virtual psychosocial support group, postnatal yoga, postpartum return to fitness, and most recently birth photography services.

Dr. Rebeca Segraves, PT, DPT, WCS

Dr. Rebeca Segraves, PT, DPT, is a Board-Certified Women’s Health Clinical Specialist with extensive experience treating perinatal and pelvic health conditions across various care settings. She has collaborated with inpatient obstetrics teams to optimize recovery after delivery, pelvic surgery, and critical care diagnoses. As the founder of Enhanced Recovery After Delivery®, she developed a clinical pathway to support mental and physical recovery during high-risk pregnancy and immediately postpartum through rehab in the hospital and home. Her vision is to ensure universal access to qualified rehab therapists during pregnancy, postpartum, perinatal loss, and pelvic surgeries, regardless of location or financial means. Dr. Segraves is dedicated to advancing care for individuals throughout the perinatal and pelvic health journey.