In our Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department, our primary aim is to enhance the life quality by decreasing the pain and removing the limitation of movement ability with a holistic and multidisciplinary approach to musculoskeletal problems, neurological diseases, acute and chronic problems such as chronic pain and disability. In addition to this, the service in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment and rehabilitation of the medical conditions which lead to disabilities in all age groups, is provided with advanced and the latest technological devises in rapid, reliable and effective way.

Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Therapy Areas

  • Back and neck hernia
  • Disorders in pain in the areas of neck, shoulders, elbows, waist, hip, knee, foot, ankle and heel (meniscus, heel spurs, arthroliths etc.)
  • Manual therapy applications related to musculoskeletal disorders
  • Rheumatismal diseases causing arthralgia and stiffness (arthrosis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis), fibromyalgia, myalgia, trigger finger, tennis elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome, cellulitis etc. soft tissue diseases, nerve compressions,
  • Treatment of lymphedema
  • Back, neck and low-back pain caused by posture disorders
  • Osteoporosis commonly known as bone thinning
  • Limitation of the joints’ movement depending on fractures and the other orthopaedic reasons, hand surgeries, before and after prosthesis operations
  • Half-body paralysis called as seizure, strokes depending on cerebral hemorrhage or occlusion in cerebral arteries (stroke)
  • Robotic rehabilitation applications for the treatments of neurological disorders.
  • Facial paralysis
  • In the spinal cord injuries occurring after work or traffic accident, strokes emerging congenitally or postnatal in the children and spastic situations
  • Joint pain and movement restriction may be occurred after fracture
  • Skolyoz, kifoz (kamburluk) denilen omurga eğriliklerinde, yaşlılığa bağlı omurga sorunlarında
  • Spinal curvatures called as scoliosis, kyphosis (kyphoscolioses), back bone problems depending on aging,
  • Specific exercises related to leaking of urine (incontinence)
  • Sports injuries (anterior and posterior cruciate ligament tears and meniscus injuries etc.)
  • Treatment of pediatric patients who have growth retardation, gait disturbance
  • Respiratory therapy, mobilizations and rehabilitations of patients who are in intensive care unit are carried out.

Most Common Physical Treatment Methods used in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department

  • Heat treatments: infrared, hot pack, paraffin
  • Cold treatments: cold pack
  • Electric current treatments: TENS, interference, neuromuscular
  • Electrical stimulation, Compex
  • Ultrasonotherapy, short-wave treatments
  • Reduced pressure treatment methods: classic reduced pressure,
  • Specific exercises treatments (exercises on and without apparatus)
  • Manual therapy
  • Traction therapy
  • Pneumatic compression (for lymphatic drainage )
  • Banding treatment
  • Robotic rehabilitation (gaining the walking function which is lost after neurological diseases)
  • Osteopathy (the manual treatment method which evaluates and treats the patient holistically for musculoskeletal disorders)