İlayda Kurtuluş, Physiotherapist

İlayda Kurtuluş is a physiotherapist working in pediatric rehabilitation at Acibadem Altunizade Hospital in İstanbul, Türkiye, where she is part of the Pediatrics unit. Her title, Fzt., is the Turkish abbreviation for physiotherapist. She has more than five years of experience in her field, and her clinical work is with children who are undergoing rehabilitation.

She graduated from Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Health Sciences in 2021. In the same year she joined Acıbadem Healthcare Services, and she has continued her clinical practice there since. Pediatric rehabilitation is the single area of expertise named on this profile; no further sub-specializations, memberships or additional qualifications are listed, and this page therefore describes her work only in those terms.

Clinical focus

İlayda Kurtuluş works in pediatric rehabilitation, that is, physiotherapy for infants, children and adolescents who need a structured program to support movement, function or recovery. In this field, care generally begins with an assessment of the child’s history, current abilities and any previous treatment, followed by a rehabilitation plan that is adjusted over time as the child’s needs change. Parents and caregivers are usually involved, since many exercises and positioning strategies are continued at home between sessions.

Because the facts available for this profile name pediatric rehabilitation in general rather than specific diagnoses, families should not assume that a particular condition is or is not within her scope of work. Whether a given child is a suitable candidate for physiotherapy with İlayda Kurtuluş, and what such a program would involve, can only be determined after her assessment of the individual case and, where relevant, in coordination with the treating physicians in the Pediatrics unit.

How İlayda Kurtuluş works with international patients

İlayda Kurtuluş speaks Turkish and English, so families from abroad can communicate with her in either language, and interpreters can be arranged for other languages. The Acibadem international patient team coordinates the collection of prior reports and imaging, for example MRI, CT, X-ray or ultrasound reports, laboratory results, operative notes and discharge summaries, arranges appointments and organizes the hospital visit. A first consultation typically covers the child’s history and symptoms, a review of existing imaging and previous treatments, a clinical examination and a discussion of the options that follow from the assessment. Video consultation is available for international patients, which allows a parent or caregiver to speak with İlayda Kurtuluş before deciding whether to travel. Any plan discussed at that stage remains provisional until the child has been examined in person, as a rehabilitation program depends on findings that cannot be fully assessed remotely.