Susan Stralka is a licensed physical therapist with many years of experience treating both musculoskeletal and neurovascular consequences of injury. She is a guest lecturer at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis, Tennessee (UTHSC) and earned a master’s degree and a doctorate in physical therapy from there.
Susan has a strong clinical background in treating neurological and musculoskeletal consequences of injury. She has presented nationally and internationally in upper and lower extremity dysfunctions as well as pain management. In March 2013, Dr. Stralka lectured in New Delhi, India at the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT). In September 2013 she was the keynote speaker at the Brazilian Society of Hand Therapists in Goiania, Brazil and in November 2013 and 2014 she spoke in the Department of Hand Surgery at Lund University in Malmo, Sweden.
Dr. Stralka has written articles on a wide variety of topics related to physical therapy for many national publications and health journals. Her most recent publications are “Graded Motor Imagery” in the Journal of Hand Therapy 2011 and a chapter on "Thoracic Outlet Syndrome" in the book entitled Neck and Arm Pain Syndromes by Elsevier in 2011. Most recently, Dr. Stralka wrote a chapter on “Spinal Cord Injury /Central Nervous System/Brachial Plexus” in the 2013 version of Hand and Upper Extremity Rehabilitation.
Dr. Stralka is also very active in the community with many civic organizations. She has held numerous state and national offices with the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and the Arthritis Association. In 2009, Susan was recognized by the Arthritis Association as Volunteer of the Year. In 2012 she received the Dorothy B Kauffman Professorship Award from The Hand Foundation of Philadelphia.