Dr. Reuven Ishai

Medical director of the Center for Ear Medicine, Dizziness and Balance

ENT surgery and head and neck surgery

Ear surgery, dizziness, balance and tinnitus

Dr. Reuven Yishai is an ENT specialist who specializes in neurootology - ear diseases, dizziness and balance. He serves as a senior physician, surgeon and director of a multidisciplinary clinic for dizziness and balance at Rambam. In addition, Dr. Yishai is the medical director of the Center for Ear Medicine, Dizziness and Balance, Medical Village. Dr. Yishai works in full cooperation with physiotherapists who specialize in vestibulology and other specialist doctors such as orthopedists and neurologists who provide a rapid response to any problem accompanied by dizziness and balance issues such as: migraine and neck problems that cause dizziness.

• Specialization in Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose, and Throat) and Head and Neck Surgery

• Subspecialty in Ear Surgery, Lateral Skull Base Surgery, and Vertigo (Otoneurology)

• Instructor for medical students at the Technion

• Clinical instructor for students and residents at Rambam Hospital

• Hebrew

• English

• Romanian

• Spanish

• French

• Ear surgeries

  • Tympanoplasty (closure of tympanic membrane perforation)

  • Hearing restoration surgeries

  • Chronic ear surgery

  • Surgery for treatment of vertigo

• Pediatric surgery

  • Third almond

  • Tonsillectomy

  • Button surgery

  • Lingual frenectomy

• Nasal surgery

  • Septoplasty and turbinate reduction surgery

  • Polypectomy (endoscopic sinus surgery, FESS)

• Force plate (Posturography, mCTSIB) - a test that enables a general assessment of all the systems responsible for balance: the vestibular system in the inner ear, the visual system, and the proprioceptive system - the skeleton, muscles, tendons and ligaments.

• Vestibular physiotherapy - targeted treatment based on the main cause of balance disorder and/or dizziness

• Assessment of dizziness and balance by an otoneurologist specialist in ENT with training in vestibular disorders, ear diseases, dizziness and balance.

• V-HIT - the test lasts approximately 20 minutes and physiologically evaluates the function of the balance system organs in the inner part of the ear of the three semicircular canals.

• V-HIT (ulmer) - a test using a device adapted for children, lasts several minutes and physiologically evaluates the function of the balance system organs in the inner part of the ear of the three semicircular canals.