Doctor Arie Koritsky

Arie Koritsky is a neurologist with enormous experience spanning 46 years. He holds a leading position in the neurology department of a well-known Israeli clinic. For many years Arie Koritsky headed the Israeli Pain Association. The doctor devotes much time and energy not only to practice but also to research: he studies the correlation between heart pathologies and chronic migraine, develops new etiotropic drugs against autonomic nervous system dysfunctions, and investigates genetic triggers of recurrent headaches in women. Arie Koritsky is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine of the prestigious Tel Aviv University.

Over the years Arie Koritsky has relieved tens of thousands of people of migraine and its agonizing symptoms. A personal approach to diagnosis and treatment is the doctor's main credo, making his work impeccable and his patients healthy and happy.

Arie Koritsky graduated from the Hebrew University medical school in Jerusalem in 1970. From 1972 to 1976 he was a resident at the neurology center of Beilinson clinic. In 1979 he went to the United States for training in the treatment of headaches of various origins at Temple University in Philadelphia. While living in America he also worked at the University of Kansas. He was later recognized and awarded by the American Headache Society as an outstanding scientist and physician. He returned to Israel in 1982 and practiced as a clinician. In 1995 he became deputy director of the neurology department of Beilinson clinic. In 1998 he joined the Israeli Pain Association and was elected its president, serving until 2001. In 2000 he founded his own headache treatment association.

Arie Koritsky is an honorary member of authoritative Israeli, American and European medical societies, including AAN, AHS, IASP, HIS, EHF and others. A brilliant and gifted clinician and researcher, he has devoted half his life to studying the etiology of headaches and developing effective drugs against them. He has published a number of scientific works on the relationship between heart pathologies and defects and migraines, hereditary causes of headaches in women during menstruation and menopause, chronic migraines in vegetative-vascular dystonia, and more. Many of his publications are widely used as textbooks and treatises for young neurologists in Israel and abroad.

Every year thousands of patients turn to Arie Koritsky, including residents of the CIS countries. The doctor helps them cope with pain that reduces quality of life and harms overall health.

The doctor's clinical interests include careful diagnosis and treatment of the following conditions:

• Migraine and status migrainosus;
• Headaches of unclear or unspecified origin;
• Cluster ("histamine") headache syndrome;
• Dizziness and syncope;
• Vegetative-vascular dystonia;
• Neuralgia of any location and etiology;
• Neuropathies.

Arie Koritsky takes an individual approach to treatment. When drawing up a treatment plan he takes into account all information about the patient, from anthropometric data to clinical and family history. Attention and sensitivity toward patients, extensive technical resources and solid experience make the doctor's work as productive and effective as possible.