It is the department where orthopedic rehabilitation service is provided. In our department, loss of limb (amputation), gunshot injury, fracture, nerve injury, muscle-tendon injury, muscle diseases, soft tissue rheumatism, limitation of joint movement, nerve and tendon inflammation, neck-back-lumbar hernia, calcification (osteoarthritis), diagnosis-treatment and rehabilitation services of musculoskeletal and nervous system diseases such as osteoporosis, joint prosthesis surgery and chronic pain are provided.
Amputee rehabilitation includes a process that starts in the pre-amputation period and aims to fulfill the functions of the amputated limb, to ensure body integrity and to regain the dynamic functions of the movement system and the role of the individual in society.
In the orthopedic rehabilitation department, this process is carried out with a multidimensional team work in terms of medical, physical, functional, psychological, social and professional aspects. Before limb amputation, patients are taken to an appropriate rehabilitation programme to minimize functional losses that may occur after amputation. By rehabilitation practices that are started in the early period after amputation, patients are physically prepared for the use of prosthesis. By evaluating the physical and occupational status and activity level of the amputee, the prosthesis components are selected with the appropriate socket and prosthesis design in the prosthesis-orthosis application unit with advanced technological equipment in our hospital, and prosthesis construction is started as soon as possible.
With the rehabilitation protocol applied during the adaptation process to the prosthesis, it is possible to restore the patient's lost function at the highest level possible. Exercise programs, therapeutic and functional electrical stimulation, hand rehabilitation, hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, work for daily living activities are among the physical therapy and rehabilitation applications. Occupational therapy, vocationaland psychosocial rehabilitation treatments are also applied.
For the diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, interventional treatment methods (genicular nerve blockage, suprascapular nerve blockage, local anesthetic-corticosteroid injections into the joints and soft tissues, etc.) are applied by the guidance of ultrasonographic imaging. In addition, interventional algological procedures (transforaminal epidural injections, caudal epidural injections, radiofrequency ablation, facet joint injections, etc.) are applied for the treatment of pain in patients with intervertebral disc pathologies (lumbar and neck hernia) and osteoarthritis (spine calcification) in the interventional therapy unit of our hospital.
