News from Department

Within the scope of the TÜBİTAK 4008 Inclusive Community Practices Program for Individuals with Special Needs, the project titled “Paralympic Athlete Festival: Learn, Raise Awareness, Discover Your Talent, Play with Athletes,” led by Dr. Mirsad Alkan from the Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, has been awarded support. We congratulate our faculty member on this achievement.

Within the scope of the TÜBİTAK 4008 Inclusive Community Practices Program for Individuals with Special Needs, the project titled “Paralympic Athlete Festival: Learn, Raise Awareness, Discover Your Talent, Play with Athletes,” led by Dr. Mirsad Alkan from the Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, has been awarded support. We congratulate our faculty member on this achievement.

Our faculty members from the Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation — Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gül Deniz Yılmaz Yelvar, Dr. Lecturer Çiçek Günday, Dr. Lecturer Kübra Kardeş, Lecturer Dr. Yunus Emre Tütüneken, Research Assistant Burcu Işıkcı, and Research Assistant Beyza Tanrıöğen — represented our university and department with their poster presentations at the 14th Congress of the European Pain Federation EFIC. We congratulate them on their achievements.

Our faculty members from the Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation — Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gül Deniz Yılmaz Yelvar, Dr. Lecturer Çiçek Günday, Dr. Lecturer Kübra Kardeş, Lecturer Dr. Yunus Emre Tütüneken, Research Assistant Burcu Işıkcı, and Research Assistant Beyza Tanrıöğen — represented our university and department with their poster presentations at the 14th Congress of the European Pain Federation EFIC. We congratulate them on their achievements.

Within the scope of TÜBİTAK 2209-A undergraduate projects, 16 projects from our Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Program have been awarded support. We congratulate the faculty members whose projects were accepted, as well as the PhD candidates and undergraduate students of the Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Department, and wish them continued success.

Within the scope of TÜBİTAK 2209-A undergraduate projects, 16 projects from our Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Program have been awarded support. We congratulate the faculty members whose projects were accepted, as well as the PhD candidates and undergraduate students of the Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Department, and wish them continued success.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gül Deniz Yılmaz Yelvar, faculty member of the Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, delivered a presentation titled "Respiration and Manual Therapy" at the April 8th Turkey Physiotherapists’ Day Celebration Event and Current Developments in Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Panel held at Istanbul Gelişim University.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gül Deniz Yılmaz Yelvar, faculty member of the Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, delivered a presentation titled "Respiration and Manual Therapy" at the April 8th Turkey Physiotherapists’ Day Celebration Event and Current Developments in Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Panel held at Istanbul Gelişim University.

Under the consultancy of Assist. Prof. Dr. Nurgül Elbaşı and Lecturer Yunus Emre Tütüneken, students of the physiotherapy and rehabilitation department carried out the event called ‘Health by Name: Screening and Education for Foot Health’.

The faculty members of İstinye University Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation attended the Cybernicx Future: Step into the Future Panel held at Mandarin Hotel / Istanbul on October 30, 2024. In the panel, innovative approaches such as digitalization, robotic systems and artificial intelligence applications in healthcare were discussed, and knowledge and experience were shared on the integration of these technologies into physiotherapy and rehabilitation processes.

At the Diabetes Awareness Day organized within the scope of “Community Contribution Events”, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Department faculty members Dr. Lecturer Nalan Soydaş Engin, Res. Asst. Hatice Karabulut and PhD student Ceren Derya Gültekin provided information about diabetes and had the participants do exercises.

1st Symposium of Evaluation and Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation in Neuromuscular Diseases held

Students of the Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation put on their white robes