Ep. 43: Community-based Rehabilitation with Sheen Ceñidoza

Ma. Sheen Ceñidoza, PTRP is a community-based physical therapist from the Philippines. As the head of their municipality's community-based rehabilitation program, she currently engages in clinical, administrative, educational and research endeavors with the patients, community leaders, non-government organizations and universities in the Philippines. She is a member and one of the resource persons for community based training/lectures of the Philippine Physical Therapy Association Community-based Rehabilitation Special Interest Group. And recently, she co-authored a theoretical and critical essay entitled "Political, Economic, Social, and Technological (PEST) analysis of Community-Based Rehabilitation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic" which was published in The Antoninus Journal of the UST Graduate School. In our conversation, we talked about what CBR is, how the CBR program in Binangonan started and what services they are offering. We also discussed what their future plans are for their program. Lastly, Mam Sheen shared why she considers being a CBR physical therapist as her dream job and the lessons she learned so far in this area. Get ready to be inspire and be moved by her story. Let's take a listen.