Trailblazing in Rehabilitation in China

Physical therapist Karen Malone, an expert in stroke and stroke rehab after over 30 years in practice, is the guest on this episode of On The Air. Karen reminisces about her days in PT school and her first job as a PT working at a small Southern California hospital in stroke rehab. She talks about her experiences in stroke rehab Tijuana and China where she worked for 20 years and where she created opportunities to use physical therapy in a province where no one knew about physical therapy. Now residing in St. Paul, MN, with her son who was adopted from China, Karen is a delightful storyteller who highlights the challenges and the triumphs of being a trailblazer in the rehab field in China.

Resources & Recommendations:

• Connect with Jan Davis, MS, OTR/L, an expert in stroke and stroke education
• Spill the OT Podcast is a judgement-free zone where people spill all of the "tea" about OT, PT, and SLP. Practitioners from the field talk about the challenges and rewards of their jobs and more
  
• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People [book] by Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald - A book about how the mental processes we're not aware of can affect what we think and what we do.
  
  

Connect with Karen:

• Via email
• On Facebook
• Through her website