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{{Infobox medical person
|name =Sakari Orava
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|birth_date =17 June 1945
|birth_place =[[Kokkola]], [[Finland]]
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|research_field =Sports medicine
|known_for =Surgeon for top athletes
|years_active =1980 to
|education =[[University of Oulu]]<ref name="MalagaHealth">{{cite web | url = http://www.malagahealth.com/medical-professional/sakari-orava-m-d | title = Sakari Orava M. D. | date = | website = | publisher = Málaga Health | access-date = 2 February 2017 | archive-date = 3 February 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170203160852/http://www.malagahealth.com/medical-professional/sakari-orava-m-d | url-status = live }}</ref>
|work_institutions =[[Hospital NEO]]
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'''Yrjö Sakari Orava''' (born 17 June 1945) is a Finnish [[sports medicine]] surgeon, physician, [[orthopedist]], and professor. He retired in 2020.▼
He attended the medical school at the [[University of Oulu]].<ref name="MalagaHealth"/> Orava
▲'''Sakari Orava''' (born 17 June 1945) is a Finnish [[sports medicine]] surgeon, physician, [[orthopedist]], and professor.
▲He attended the medical school at the [[University of Oulu]].<ref name="MalagaHealth"/> Orava has clinics in [[Turku]], [[Rome]] and [[Madrid]].<ref name="Rannikkoseutu"/> He has been dubbed as "[[Gregory House|Dr. House]] of sports",<ref name="Kauppalehti"/> and has performed over 20,000 surgeries throughout his career. Orava was the head physician for the Finnish Olympic team in four consecutive [[Summer Olympics]] between 1988 and 2000.
== High-profile operations ==
Orava's client list includes football clubs [[Real Madrid]], [[Sevilla FC]], [[FC Barcelona]], [[Chelsea FC]] and [[Juventus FC]].<ref name="Kauppalehti"/> Orava has also been working with [[AC Milan]] since 1986, and he performed a successful surgery on footballer [[David Beckham]] at his clinic in Turku in March 2010 to repair his torn [[achilles tendon]].<ref name="BBC">{{cite web
Orava has performed surgery on many other top athletes as well, including Emanuela Tessitore (old promise of the italian athletic) [[Marco van Basten]], [[Haile
== Personal life ==
Orava lives in [[Naantali]], Finland, and speaks [[Finnish language|Finnish]], [[Swedish language|Swedish]], [[English language|English]], [[German language|German]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[Italian language|Italian]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Sakari Orava M. D. |url=http://www.malagahealth.com/medical-professional/sakari-orava-m-d |website=Málaga Health Foundation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203160852/http://www.malagahealth.com/medical-professional/sakari-orava-m-d |archive-date=February 3, 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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