Ceren Kandemir Gençsoylu, Physiotherapist

Ceren Kandemir Gençsoylu works in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the Acibadem Bağdat Outpatient Clinic in İstanbul. Her work covers spine health, movement disorders treatment, and rehabilitation and pain treatment, with a focus on the assessment and rehabilitation of conditions affecting the neck, back, muscles, nerves, pelvis, and movement. She has more than ten years of experience in her field.

She graduated from Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University Faculty of Health Sciences in 2016 and continued her education at Üsküdar University, completing it in 2020. She has been part of Acıbadem Healthcare Services since 2018, and her practice has remained centered on physical medicine and rehabilitation throughout that time. She works with patients in Turkish and English.

Clinical focus

A significant part of her practice relates to spine health, including spine-related pain, facet joint syndrome, and tethered cord syndrome. She also works with patients who have muscle and nerve diseases and restless legs syndrome, and she provides movement disorders treatment, in which rehabilitation aims to support mobility and everyday function. Rehabilitation is planned around the individual patient’s symptoms, functional limitations, and goals, and the plan is reviewed as the patient progresses so that it can be adjusted where needed.

Pain-related conditions form another area of her work. These include frozen shoulder, chronic muscle pain, and fibromyalgia, for which rehabilitation and pain treatment may be combined depending on the clinical picture. She also addresses pelvic pain and functional disorders through pelvic floor rehabilitation. In each case, treatment is developed after a clinical assessment that takes into account previous treatments and existing findings, and the expected course and limits of rehabilitation are discussed with the patient.

How Ceren Kandemir Gençsoylu works with international patients

Ceren Kandemir Gençsoylu consults in Turkish and English, and interpreters can be arranged for patients who speak other languages. Before a visit, the international patient team coordinates the collection of prior reports and imaging, such as MRI, CT, X-ray or ultrasound reports, laboratory and pathology results, operative notes and discharge summaries, and arranges appointments and the visit to the outpatient clinic. A first consultation typically covers the patient’s history and symptoms, a review of existing imaging and previous treatments, a clinical examination focused on pain, mobility and function, and a discussion of the rehabilitation options that may be appropriate. Video consultation is available for international patients who wish to discuss their situation before traveling or to follow up after a visit to İstanbul.