Orthopedics treatment in Israel

Orthopedics refers to the complex, high-tech and expensive branches of medicine. The clinics in Israel offer excellent treatment results at an affordable price, without any health risk, with full care and recovery. The local clinics perform minimally invasive operations on the spine, replacement of the hip or knee joint, arthroscopic interventions. The cost of consultations and operations is relatively low.

Rabin Medical Center

The medical center has the largest Department of Orthopedics and Orthopedic Trauma in the country. It includes the Departments of Orthopedics of the Beilinson and Hasharon Hospitals. The department includes several clinics:

• Clinic for Cancer Surgery. The doctors working at this medical facility perform tumor removal.
• Clinic for Joint Replacement. The most demanded surgical procedures include hip replacement and knee replacement. Both total and partial joint replacement can be performed. The surgeons perform complex surgery to replace the components of previously implanted artificial knee and hip joints.
• Clinic for Hand and Forearm Surgery. It deals with the treatment of congenital defects, bone fractures, torn ligaments.
• Clinic for Elbow and Shoulder. It offers the treatment of epicondylitis, typical shoulder dislocations, arthroscopic surgery for tendinopathies (in most cases, for damaged rotator cuff).
• Clinic for Spinal Surgery. It deals with the treatment of intervertebral hernias, scoliosis, spinal injuries.
• Clinic for the treatment of Ankle Joint and Foot. The doctors of this Clinic for Orthopedics are engaged in the treatment of fractures, diabetic foot, congenital and acquired diseases
• Clinic for Orthopedic Trauma. It treats almost all types of injuries. The specialists of the Orthopedic Center have achieved tremendous success in the treatment of femoral neck fractures in the elderly.
• Clinic for Arthroscopy and Sports Trauma. The clinic often admits athletes with torn ligaments, meniscal injuries, muscle injuries and others.

Rambam Medical Center

It is one of the leading medical centers in Israel. The Clinic for Orthopedics has several departments, such as the Department of Knee Surgery, the Department of Ankle Surgery, the Department of Shoulder Surgery, the Department of Hand Surgery and the Department of Spinal Surgery. The doctors of the hospital have vast experience in treating bone tumors.

Rambam has its own research base, and therefore it uses the very latest treatment methods for orthopedic diseases.

The features of orthopedics at the Rambam Medical Center:

• The medical center has developed new approaches to the treatment of hallux valgus.
• Most operations on large joints are performed using arthroscopy.
• The hospital is considered one of the best in hip arthroplasty. Its replacement is performed through a minimally invasive access. The hospital offers patients a fast rehabilitation program.
• The surgeons perform PLF and TLIF minimally invasive spinal surgery.
• Huge successes have been achieved in the treatment of intervertebral hernias, vertebral fractures and scoliosis.
• The participation of rehabilitologists and physiotherapists allows patients to recover quickly after surgery.
• The risk of complications in the Department of Orthopedics at the Rambam Medical Center is one of the lowest in the world.

The hospital has the Department of Pediatric Orthopedics. It treats congenital clubfoot, hip dysplasia, Perthes disease, cerebral palsy, and injuries in children and adolescents.

Hadassah Medical Center

The Department of Orthopedics at the University Hospital Hadassah ranks among the best in the country. It performs hip replacement using computer navigation. It provides the placement of an artificial joint with maximum accuracy, through the minimally invasive access (incision is 5 cm long).

The Hadassah Medical Center uses not electro-optical, but electromagnetic computer navigation technology. It is more accurate and reduces the risk of the endoprosthesis loosening.

Other medical interests of the Department of Orthopedics include: 

• Joint arthroscopy
• Bone and soft tissue tumors
• Hand surgery
• Typical shoulder dislocations and tendinopathies
• Scoliosis and other spinal diseases
• Foot and ankle pathology
• Amputation of the limbs and prosthesis implantation
• Treatment and rehabilitation for athletes
• Pediatric orthopedics

The medical center has a department for treating the consequences of injuries.

Sheba Medical Center

The Department of Orthopedics at the Sheba Medical Center consists of several units. It annually treat almost 4 thousand inpatients, while more than 35 thousand people receive outpatient medical care. The department performs 4,200 surgical interventions every year.

The department includes the following units specializing in:

• Foot and ankle surgery
• Joint replacement
• Spinal pathologies
• Orthopedic trauma
• Shoulder and elbow surgery

The medical center works closely with colleagues from Tel Aviv University. It is engaged in scientific activity, development of new surgical procedures and conservative methods of treating diseases of the musculoskeletal system.

Sourasky Medical Center

The medical center is located in Tel Aviv. The Department of Orthopedics performs more than 2 thousand operations every year.

The hospital specializes in the treatment of intervertebral hernias, scoliosis, spinal deformities. It uses spinal fusion, the DISC FX intervertebral disc mechanical aspiration technique and the APOS rehabilitation system.

Other priorities of medical activities:

• Reconstructive surgery to correct the consequences of injuries
• Knee replacement
• Hip replacement
• Hand surgery
• Knee arthroscopy
• Treatment of rotator cuff injuries

Particular attention is paid to the rehabilitation of patients. The orthopedists work together with rehabilitologists and physiotherapists. The hospital has a Center for Movement Disorders for patients with neuromuscular pathology.

The medical center uses a unique HANA operating table, which allows hip replacement from the anterior access. It also allows for hip arthroscopy as the instruments are inserted between the muscles without injuring them, which makes the recovery period shorter.

The medical center is considered one of the best in joint replacement. It annually performs more than 350 hip replacement operations and another 250 surgical procedures to replace other joints. The medical facility performs most revision hip replacement operations in Israel.

Assuta Hospital

The hospital is one of the largest research centers in Israel. To diagnose diseases of the musculoskeletal system, it uses high-field MRI devices and X-ray devices of the 5th generation with the minimum radiation load on the body.

The features of orthopedic treatment at the Assuta medical center:

• Spinal surgery using the BoneScalpel ultrasonic scalpel, which allows dissecting bone tissue without the risk of damage to the spinal cord and blood vessels.
• Spinal surgery involves the use of SpineAssist robot-assisted technology, as well as the three-dimensional O-Arm robotic system, which has reduced the duration of operations and the risk of complications.
• The Assuta Hospital uses unique nanotechnology for splicing torn ligaments in athletes.
• The effectiveness of hip replacement surgery exceeds 98%.
• The use of a unique method to remove the intervertebral hernia with a stream of water (hydrodiscectomy). This is a minimally invasive treatment, which eliminates the formation of hematomas and proliferation of bone tissue.
• In the case of osteoporosis or compression vertebral fractures, doctors perform percutaneous vertebroplasty, which aims to strengthen the vertebral body with cement injected through a needle.
• The use of exoskeletons to restore spinal injuries.

Why is it better to undergo medical treatment in Israel?

The hospitals in Israel are well-equipped. They use the innovative methods, which are less invasive and safer than standard ones.

Over 7,000 hip and knee replacement operations are performed in Israel annually. The doctors of leading medical centers have vast experience in their performance. The cost of hip replacement surgery is lower than in leading clinics in the United States or Western Europe.

The hospitals in Israel also perform surgery to replace other joints, including ankle, shoulder, elbow and even small joints of the hand.

The benefits of treatment in this country:

• Well-equipped hospitals
• Reasonable prices for medical procedures and operations
• Experienced surgeons with high respectability in the world of medicine
• Full-fledged care and fast rehabilitation
• Adequate analgesia and symptomatic treatment after surgery

The cost of treatment in Israel is low. The prices for the consultations of specialists, procedures and operations are lower than in developed western countries.

Where to seek help from?

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• Selection of the medical center in Israel that specializes in orthopedics and achieves the best results in the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases
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• Control over the cost of services rendered, return of unspent funds
• Direct communication with the doctor
• Possibility of having a preliminary consultation
• Elaboration of a medical program without the need to repeat previously performed diagnostic tests, precise diagnosis making
• Buying and forwarding medicines
• Communication with the hospital after the completion of the medical program
• Organization of additional diagnostics, treatment in Israel or rehabilitation

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