Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Departments of Medical Park Group of Hospitals aims to provide healthcare services, which are up-to-date and in strict concordance with ethical principles and international standards, for patients who meet indication of physiotherapy and/or rehabilitation at inpatient and outpatient settings.

Physical medicine and rehabilitation departments are comprised of examination rooms, physiotherapy rooms and exercise halls, which are equipped with state-of-the-art medical devices, and outpatient, inpatient and critical-care patients are managed by our experienced physicians and physiotherapists.

Considering the diseases or injuries which are within field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation by nature, aim of physiotherapy and rehabilitation is to enhance life quality of patients, who have conditions which lead to disability of various body parts or threaten life.

A wide range of physiotherapy and rehabilitation services is delivered, such as intra-articular injection, soft tissue injection, PRP for musculo-skeletal system diseases, neural therapy, mesotherapy, and pain treatment with dry needle.

Botilinum Toxin is used by our experienced Physiatrists in selected patients for cerebral palsy, stroke and spasticities secondary to spinal injury.

WHAT IS MANUAL THERAPY?

Manual therapy is an effective and pain-free therapy which is performed by hands for lumbalgia, cervicalgia, dorsalgia and many other musculo-skeletal system problems. This treatment approach covers specific techniques that are performed with hands for joints, muscles, soft tissues and many myofascial structures. This method has a special place in physiotherapy and it is an effective and safe procedure used for many musculo-skeletal system disorders and spinal pain.

Muscle spasms, joint blocks, compressed nerves, and strained and stiffened myofascial structures can cause pain and severely disturb daily life of a person. Manual therapy is performed to eliminate dysfunctions of these structures by taking anatomic and physiological processes into account. In other words, this treatment modality intends healthy functioning of tissues without use of any medication. Tissue functioning is restored using unique mobilization, manipulation, stretching, relaxing and muscle-energy techniques. This effective, pain- and side effect-free method principally helps following conditions;

• • Herniated lumbar and cervical discs
• Pain in muscles and facet joints of spine,
• * Myofascial pain syndrome.
• • Frozen shoulder, impingement syndrome, rotator cuff ruptures,
• • Nerve entrapments in arms and legs,
• • Hip and sacroiliac joint ache,
• • Meniscus and ligament injuries in knee.
• • Limited joint movement secondary to fracture.
• • Headache originating from cervical region

MANUAL LYMPH DRAINAGE AND BANDAGING

This method is used for stimulating the blocked lymphatic ducts in lymphatic system, flowing accumulated lymph fluid with special techniques and draining the lymph fluid from the edematous limb. Congested lymphatic ducts with low flow rate are activated with manual lymph drainage to restore functioning of lymphatic system. Next, bandaging method is performed. Compression clothes may be considered, if it is necessary. Manual lymph drainage should not be confused with classical massage; this drainage method is based on special application techniques and it is performed by specially trained physiotherapists.