Professor Ehud Rath
Orthopedic surgeon. An extra-class specialist in surgery of the large joints, including joint replacement operations 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 the comprehensive treatment of sports injuries. He has the highest qualification and great experience in surgical treatment of the large joints, including complex knee injuries that require an individual approach and exceptional skill from the orthopedist. He performs knee and hip replacement operations. He has a perfect command 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, where he graduated 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 in 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, dealing in depth with surgery of the knee, hip and other large joints, arthroscopy, and innovations 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 study programs 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 clinic. He sits on the committee of the knee arthroscopy society within the Israel Orthopaedic Association and of the International Society for Hip Arthroscopy (ISHA), and enjoys unquestioned authority among colleagues as an extra-class specialist in his field.
Professor Ehud Rath masterfully handles the whole range of modern orthopedic methods of treating injured joints, including arthroplasty operations and the newest arthroscopic techniques. His professionalism is especially sought after in treating sports joint injuries, where the key therapeutic aspects are the fullest possible functional restoration of the injured joint and quick recovery after surgery thanks to minimal trauma. His expertise includes:
- surgery of the knee and hip joints of any scope and complexity, including their replacement;
- comprehensive treatment of complex and combined sports injuries;
- arthroscopic surgery of the shoulder, elbow and hip joint;
- minimally invasive interventions on the knee, ankle and wrist joints;
- arthroscopic operations of the hand and foot.
The brilliant orthopedic surgeon Ehud Rath has at his disposal academic knowledge, enormous practical experience, special skills and the most modern equipment, which allows him to successfully perform orthopedic operations of all categories of complexity.