Dr. Merve Cingöz

After a paragliding accident left me with a complex brachial plexus injury, multiple surgeons told me I'd never regain full arm function. Dr. Cingöz approached my case differently—she didn't just see nerves and muscles, she saw a musician who needed to play violin again. Her combination of targeted neural therapy, customized proprioceptive retraining, and what she called 'movement re-patterning' was unlike anything I'd encountered. For six months, we worked on rewiring what the accident had scrambled. Yesterday, I performed a simple scale for the first time. The tears in her eyes matched mine. This wasn't just rehabilitation; it was the reconstruction of my identity.

Our 8-year-old son developed severe idiopathic toe-walking that progressed to where he couldn't put his heels down at all. Pediatricians suggested waiting it out, but Dr. Cingöz immediately recognized it as more than a phase. Her approach was magical—she turned therapy into games. 'Let's see if your feet can be quiet ninjas' she'd say during sensory integration work. She created a custom dynamic bracing protocol that allowed play while correcting posture, and taught us family-based myofascial release techniques. Within four months, he was running normally. She treated the whole child, not just the symptom, and gave us our joyful, mobile boy back.

As a 72-year-old with advanced Parkinson's, I'd accepted that falling was just part of my life. Then I met Dr. Cingöz after my third fracture. Instead of generic balance exercises, she conducted what she termed a 'movement audit'—analyzing everything from how I shifted weight while making tea to my breathing patterns during transitions. Her 'pre-habilitation' strategy focused on preventing falls before they happened through micro-adjustments to daily activities. The vibration therapy and rhythmic auditory stimulation she incorporated felt unconventional, but my fall frequency reduced by 80% in three months. She gave me back my confidence to move through my own home safely.

I arrived at Dr. Cingöz's clinic as an emergency referral after a botched lumbar injection elsewhere left me with cauda equina symptoms. Most doctors would have immediately sent me to surgery, but she spent 90 minutes evaluating me and determined surgical intervention could wait. Her emergency neuro-rehabilitation protocol was astonishing—a precise cocktail of epidural lytic injections, targeted pulsed radiofrequency, and immediate mobilization therapy. She monitored me daily for a week, adjusting treatments in real-time based on my neurological responses. She didn't just manage a crisis; she engineered a recovery that avoided major surgery entirely. My function returned gradually but completely over six weeks—a testament to her exceptional judgment and technical skill.