Susan Chalela

MPT

Susan Chalela, MPT, is owner of the Chalela Physical Therapy Institute for EDS and CCI/Cervical Instabilities. She is a Neurological physical therapist specialist who primarily treats patients with central nervous system compromise due to cervical instability. She is a founding member of the EDS Center of Excellence at the Medical University of South Carolina. Patients with cervical instability travel from all over the world to work with Susan using her Finding Functional Foundations approach. She is developing and teaching her successful Finding Functional Foundations approach as a continuing education series through the EDS ECHO program. She is a Ph.D. student at the Medical University of South Carolina, studying upper cervical instability and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. She regularly lectures nationally and internationally to physical therapy and medical audiences. She is a co-author of the recent international collaboration consensus recommendations for conservative care of cervical instability.