Stop Skipping The Mother: Hazardous Problems And Powerful Solutions

2:48 Erin On Why PT isn’t more involved with Pregnancy and Postpartum care “One of the big ones is that I think it’s a society we just don’t really value maternal care as much as we do some other diagnoses.”

6:19 Jenna “But what are the social determinants of health that this individual has an acute care therapists are The best highly qualified in order to address that.

I don’t think that there’s any other setting that does as deep of a dive of someone’s home environment, their support system that they have, what are what are the duties they have to go back to doing and then actually trying to simulate it in the hospital before they go home.”

10:26 Rebeca On Taking Vitals with Activity“We have to fill in the gap as therapists with every single patient population. The OB population is no different.”

Rapid Responses:

Give me a song on your workout playlist?

Rebeca “My Power, Beyoncé” Jenna “Anything by Journey”

What other podcast besides this one would you recommend?

Erin “The Good Faith Podcast”

Ann “I Shouldn’t Be Alive”

You know you work in acute care when…

Rebeca “when you have a change of clothes, at least 3 times”

Jenna “When you receive a stat order to, for someone who’s potential discharge but they’ve never had PT for the whole week and a half they’ve been in the hospital.”

Erin “When you change your shoes at your car”

Ann “You leave your shoes under your desk”

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Leo Arguelles (LEE-O R-GWELL-IS)

Twitter @LeoArguellesPT

Ashley Poole

Twitter @AshleyPooleDPT

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