Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation

The Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation of IKU contributed to ESMAC 2025, organized by the European Society for Movement Analysis (ESMAC), held in Basel, Switzerland, between September 8–13, 2025, with a total of 19 posters and 4 oral presentations. These studies included both academic staff projects and undergraduate and graduate student research.

Within the scope of "TÜBİTAK 2214-A International Doctoral Research Scholarship Program", one of our faculty members from the Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Res. Assist. Halenur Evrendilek has started to work under the mentorship of Julie Stebbins for her doctoral thesis, new projects, and clinical experience at the Oxford Gait Analysis Laboratory of the Nuffield Department of Orthopedic, Rheumatological and Musculoskeletal Sciences at the University of Oxford in England for 6 months. We congratulate our teacher for this great success and wish her continued success.

The academic staff of the Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation participated in “European Society for Movement Analysis in Adults and Children (ESMAC)” congress, held in Dublin, capital of Ireland, on September 19-24, 2022.

As a part of the IKU-BAP2007 coded "Next Generation Healthy Child Project-Primary Education Age" and IKU-BAP2008 coded "Next Generation Healthy Child Project-Adolescent Age" projects carried out by Istanbul Kültür University (IKU) Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation (FTR) screening activities were carried out at Kültür College and Kültür 2000 College on 26-29 April 2022 and 10-11 May 2022.

Istanbul Kultur University Movement Analysis Research and Application Center aims to prevent health problems in later ages by questioning the basic movement characteristics of the person. Established within the body of Istanbul Kultur University, the center draws attention by offering students the opportunity to practice as well as theoretical knowledge.

As we left the first year of the pandemic behind, the physical health of people whose work and life balance intertwined were affected in this process. The news, in which Lecturer Imge Nas from the Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Department drew attention to the negative impact of the lack of physical activity on people's muscular and skeletal health, was featured on the Demirören News Agency (DHA) news portal.

Due to the pandemic, the online rehabilitation (telerehabilitation) sessions held by Istanbul Kültür University students continue.

Çınar, 3 years old children of Manolya and Kıvanç Alay couple living in İzmir, was diagnosed with DMD (Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy) when he was 1 year old after routine vaccination. Unable to crawl and step, Çınar baby took her first steps after physical therapy. Çınar's treatment, which was left unfinished due to the coronavirus epidemic, continues with online rehabilitation (telerehabilitation) carried out by Istanbul Kültür University students.