Dr. Hakan Sazak

After my 12-year-old son's competitive gymnastics fall resulted in a complex shoulder subluxation, we were terrified it might end his athletic dreams. Dr. Sazak approached it not just as an injury, but as a developmental puzzle. He designed a rehab protocol that felt more like a game to my son, using biofeedback screens and progressive resistance bands. What amazed me was his explanation of adolescent growth plates and how his therapy avoided them. Six months later, my son is back on the bars, stronger than before. Dr. Sazak didn't just fix a shoulder; he preserved a childhood passion with remarkable foresight.

As an 82-year-old with advanced Parkinson's, my world had shrunk to my armchair due to debilitating rigidity and fear of falling. My consultation with Dr. Sazak felt like the first time someone looked beyond the tremor. He identified 'freezing of gait' as my primary enemy and introduced a novel cueing strategy—a simple laser device attached to my walker that projects a line to step over. Combined with rhythmic auditory stimulation (he had me listening to specific march tempos), it broke the freeze cycles. I'm not running marathons, but I can walk to my garden again. His approach was ingeniously simple where others offered only complexity.

I was referred to Dr. Sazak after a bizarre workplace accident—a falling ceiling panel struck my neck, leaving me with persistent dysphagia and vocal fatigue alongside neck pain. Multiple specialists had treated each symptom in isolation. Dr. Sazak was the first to connect them as a cohesive 'whiplash-associated dysphonia' syndrome. His treatment was extraordinary: simultaneous cervical manual therapy while I performed specific swallowing exercises under real-time ultrasound guidance. Seeing my own throat muscles react on screen was revelatory. He coordinated with a speech therapist in a true interdisciplinary dance. The integrated approach resolved in months what years of fragmented care could not.

Following a total knee arthroplasty that failed to restore my range of motion, I arrived at Acibadem Kadikoy desperate and stiff. Dr. Sazak's post-surgical rehab was unlike any protocol I'd encountered. He used a combination of aquatic therapy in their warm pool and something called 'blood flow restriction training' with minimal loads. The science was fascinating—occluding partial blood flow to make light weights feel heavy, stimulating muscle growth without stressing the new joint. He tracked my progress with a wearable sensor that measured gait symmetry. Within eight weeks, I achieved 135 degrees flexion. His method felt like rehabilitation from the future, precise and personalized to my biology's response.