Herzliya Medical Center
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Dr. Ilya Pekarsky is one of the leading specialists in spine surgery in Israel. He treats and operates both adults and children, and specializes in the surgical treatment of diseases and traumas such as osteochondrosis, fractures of the spine, herniated intravertebral discs, pinched nerves, spinal tumors, and others.
Dr. Ilya Pekarsky performs about 60 operations monthly. He has broad experience and thousands of healthy patients, including professional athletes. Moreover, Ilya Pekarsky has a degree in vertebrology and he is a member of the Israel Orthopedic Association, the Israel Spine Society, the European Association of Spine Surgeons. In addition, according to the rating of the Israel Medical Association of Dr. Ilya Pekarsky acknowledged as the best spinal surgeon of Israel.
Dr. Ilya Pekarsky was born in Moscow in 1960. His medical education began at the Second Moscow Medical Institute, in which he was graduated in Pediatric Surgery. Since 1990 he has been working in Israel, where he had a 6-year specialization and received a degree in Orthopedic Surgery. Besides, Dr. Pekarsky completed postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University. After that, he specialized in Spinal Surgery.
Dr. Ilya Pekarsky is an international instructor in Spine Surgery. He regularly carries out demonstrating operations in Europe, USA, and Japan. Currently, Dr. Pekarsky operates in the leading private hospitals in Israel and works as a consultant and spinal surgeon in the hospital “Herzliya Medical Center.”
There are a lot of famous personalities of culture and sport among patients of doctor Pekarsky. For example, Moscow director and filmmaker Vyacheslav Govorukhin was completely healed by Dr. Pekarsky and left his crutches forever. Among the patients of doctor Pekarsky, there are also the two players of the Russian national ice hockey team. Both were recovered well after surgery and continued to play for the national team. The doctor also operated famous players of the Spanish basketball clubs, which they have continued their career. Perhaps the most amazing clinical experience and success of Dr. Pekarsky is the operation, after which patients have returned to military aviation, where the load on the spine is much higher than sports.
One of the most famous patients of Dr. Pekarsky is the two-time Olympic champion in figure skating Yevgeny Plushenko. Dr. Ilya Pekarsky restored athlete spine a few times, returning skaters to the sport. In March 2016 in Yevgeny’s spine herniated disc was diagnosed between the 6th and 7th cervical vertebrae, which was pressing on a nerve, disordering the movement in his left hand. Immediately after the examination, the operation has been successfully performed by Dr. Pekarsky, after which within six weeks a special detachable collar was prescribed for the athlete, in which he had to sleep and move around in order to avoid relapse. Within three months of rehabilitation and swimming exercises, the skater was able to go on with simple figure skating elements and to start a normal training six months later. Undoubtedly, the case of Evgeny Plushenko can be considered as yet another victory of the high professionalism of Dr. Ilya Pekarsky.
It is not surprising that among the patients seeking help from a doctor Pekarsky, a lot of people from Russia and CIS countries, as it is not so often abroad when you can communicate with the doctor in your native language without any difficulty. Definitely, this fact is another argument to seek medical help for spinal problems in leading Israeli private hospital “Herzliya Medical Center”, which has recently been running with Dr. Ilya Pekarsky.