Disaster and Conflict Injuries Rehabilitation Center
Aim to rehabilitate more than 100,000 Palestinian-injured Muslims in Gaza.
We spread compassion with science
Aim to rehabilitate more than 100,000 Palestinian-injured Muslims in Gaza.
We started by –FREE of charge– training more than 40 physical therapists (35 of them are Palestinians) for the rehabilitation techniques in
- Amputee Rehabilitation
- Crush and Compartment Syndrome Rehabilitation
- Neuro-Rehabilitation department
- Burns Rehabilitation
- Orthopedic injuries Rehabilitation Department
and we aim to become 150 well-educated, highly qualified Palestinian physical therapists in the next 3 months Inshaa Allah ..
Who are we?
SmartPhysio is a specialized education initiative started in November 2020 by a team of six students managed by Dr. Islam Ahmad and by November 2023, we had a community of more than 1400 Arab physical therapists and PT students in Istanbul.
What do we need?
We want to establish a Disaster and Conflict Injuries Rehabilitation Center to achieve both aims:
- Rehabilitate the injured people in Gaza, Syria, Yemen, and many others in Istanbul, AND
- to send those well-educated, highly qualified Palestinian physical therapists to Gaza ASAP.
Have we a history in this field?
We shared in the rehabilitation of the Syrian injured victims through the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake, and we offered high-quality and quick rehabilitation programs for burns, amputees, and crush syndrome victims.
In this case if both lower extremities below the knee amputee after only 60 days of Rehabilitation. – SmartPhysio team – Syria Earthquake 2023