Professor Ehud Rath
Orthopedic surgeon. An extra-class specialist in large-joint surgery, including joint replacement and minimally invasive arthroscopic techniques.
Professor Ehud Rath is one of the best and most authoritative specialists in Israel and the world in orthopedics, an expert in sports medicine and comprehensive treatment of sports injuries. He has the highest qualification and extensive experience in the surgical treatment of large joints, including complex knee injuries that demand an individual approach and exceptional skill from the orthopedist. He performs knee and hip replacement operations and is a master of arthroscopic techniques, applying them in operations on the joints of the upper and lower limbs.
Professor Ehud Rath received his medical education in Israel, graduating from the Faculty of Medicine of Ben-Gurion University. After completing his internship and clinical residency in orthopedics in Israel, Ehud Rath trained as an orthopedic surgeon in minimally invasive shoulder surgery in England, and at the largest university clinics of Boston and Massachusetts in the USA in surgical orthopedics of combined injuries, arthroscopic surgery and sports medicine. In Israel Professor Rath continues to work actively in his specialty, engaging in depth with surgery of the knee, hip and other large joints, arthroscopy and innovation in sports injury medicine.
Professor Ehud Rath is the author of several dozen scientific articles on current issues of joint orthopedics published in prestigious international journals, a lecturer in the Department of Orthopedics at Ben-Gurion University, and coordinator of curricula within the scientific and practical cooperation of this famous Israeli institution with Columbia University in the USA. He heads the Israeli Society of Sports Medicine and the Department of Arthroscopic Surgery at Sourasky Medical Center. He sits on the commission of the knee arthroscopy society within the Israeli Orthopedic Association and the International Society for Hip Arthroscopy (ISHA), enjoying unquestioned authority among colleagues as an extra-class specialist.
Professor Ehud Rath masterfully commands the full range of modern orthopedic methods for treating injured joints, including joint replacement and the latest arthroscopic techniques. His professionalism is especially in demand in treating sports joint injuries, where the key treatment aspects are the fullest possible functional restoration of the injured joint and fast recovery after surgery thanks to minimal trauma. His expertise includes:
- knee and hip surgery of any scope and complexity, including replacement;
- comprehensive treatment of complex and combined sports injuries;
- arthroscopic surgery of the shoulder, elbow and hip;
- minimally invasive procedures on the knee, ankle and wrist joints;
- arthroscopic operations of the hand and foot.
The brilliant orthopedic surgeon Ehud Rath has academic knowledge, enormous practical experience, special skills and the most modern equipment, allowing him to successfully perform orthopedic operations of all levels of complexity.