Spec. MD. Sedat Harman

I'm a 78-year-old retired teacher with chronic lower back pain that made gardening impossible. Dr. Harman didn't just prescribe pills, he spent 45 minutes mapping my pain history back to a fall in 2003! His approach was methodical: first diagnostic nerve blocks to pinpoint the source, then a tailored radiofrequency ablation. What struck me was how he explained everything using simple analogies ('think of it like silencing a faulty doorbell wire'). Six months later, I'm planting tulips again. Medical Park Izmir's pain clinic feels more like a detective's office where the mystery is your discomfort.

Our 9-year-old daughter developed complex regional pain syndrome after a seemingly minor ankle sprain. We'd seen three specialists who treated it as orthopedic. Dr. Harman was the first to recognize the neurological component. He knelt to her eye level, showed her colorful diagrams of 'confused nerves,' and created a game-like rehabilitation plan. Instead of scary injections, he started with mirror therapy and graded motor imagery. His follow-up included checking her school art projects, he noticed her drawings lacked feet before she verbalized the pain! After 8 weeks, she's dancing again. He treats children like small scientists, not just patients.

I arrived at Medical Park Izmir's ER at 2 AM with trigeminal neuralgia so severe I couldn't speak. Dr. Harman was called in emergently. While others might have just sedated me, he performed a bedside ultrasound-guided nerve block within 20 minutes of arrival. What I remember through the agony: his calm voice explaining each step ('cold disinfectant now, small pinch coming'), and how he held my hand during the procedure since I was alone. His emergency protocol included a same-day MRI and a transitional pain plan that bridged me to definitive treatment. He turns crisis into structured recovery.

As a competitive cyclist with failed back surgery syndrome, I'd resigned myself to permanent nerve pain. Dr. Harman reviewed my imaging and said, 'The surgery didn't fail, it just completed chapter one.' His novel approach combined pulsed radiofrequency with a proprioceptive retraining program using balance boards. He even analyzed my cycling posture videos! The breakthrough came when he identified scar tissue entrapment using dynamic ultrasound during movement. Now I'm training for a century ride. He doesn't manage pain, he reverse-engineers it.