


Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Treatment in Rabin Medical Center
About the clinic
Rabin Medical Center in Petach Tikva, Israel, offers assessment and supportive care for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The JCI-accredited center is affiliated with Tel Aviv University’s Sackler School of Medicine.
ALS diagnostic options
Assessment options include neurological consultation, imaging, and genetic testing.
- Neurological consultation: A specialist visit to assess neurological symptoms.
- Advanced MRI: Imaging used as part of the diagnostic workup.
- Genetic testing: Testing that can support the evaluation of ALS.
- Diagnostic cerebral angiography: An imaging procedure available at the center.
ALS treatment and supportive care
Care can address speech, swallowing, breathing, mobility, nutrition, and symptoms as the disease progresses.
- Multidisciplinary neurorehabilitation: Inpatient or day-care rehabilitation includes at least 3 therapy sessions daily. The team may include a rehabilitation physician, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech-language therapists, psychologists, social workers, and nutrition staff. The schedule and length of stay are personalized.
- Speech and swallowing therapy: Clinical and rehabilitation treatment addresses dysarthria, or difficulty speaking, and dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing.
- Respiratory rehabilitation: Respiratory physiotherapy and ventilator weaning are available for chronically ventilated patients. Each patient receives an individualized rehabilitation plan.
- Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG): A feeding tube is inserted directly into the stomach for long-term nutrition when swallowing fails.
- Spasticity management: Options include botulinum toxin injections and intrathecal baclofen pump therapy using a Medtronic pump.
- Palliative and supportive care: A multidisciplinary team provides symptom relief and quality-of-life support for advanced disease.
Patients can request a consultation through Bookimed to discuss which assessment or care options may fit their needs.
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Rabin Medical Center: more details about the clinic
Rabin Medical Center — is one of the largest institutions of Israel, providing medical services to patients from all over the country. Since the time of its opening, the medical center was guided by the use of only the new tools of modern technology, setting standards for of its treatment. The center is developing new products and techniques.
Rabin Medical Center in numbers are:
- More than 60% by number of organ transplants such operations throughout Israel
- More than 6,000 operations performed annually in the department of cardiology and cardiosurgery
- Genetic testing is held every year 24 thousand people
- 20% of all oncological patients receive care in Israel is in the center
- More than 30,100 annual surgical protsedur
- Outpatient get help 836,500 patients annually
- Every year the hospital center is replenished more than 90 thousand people
- Medical staff - 4,5 thousand skilled
The annual budget of the medical center allows to equip all hospitals and department the most modern technology.
It features patients the following major departments and units of the Rabin Medical Center:
- General Hospital "Beilinson"
- Trauma Center "Rabin" - provides assistance the civilian and military, in the territory of the center built a helipad for simplification movement of patients
- Oncology center "David"
- Hospital for Women "Helen Schneider"
- Department of cardiac and thoracic surgery
- Outpatient Hospital "Hasharon"
- Clinic arthroscopy and sports injuries
- LASER therapy clinic
- Urology department
- Rehabilitation Clinic
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ISRAEL LEIZER
ליטל כספי
מיטל לום
Dada VFC
Snejka Katz
Елена Самойлова
Наталья Лебедева
Mike Ly
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Ze'ev Jabotinsky St 39, Petah Tikva, 4941492, Israel
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