Yrjö Sakari Orava (born 17 June 1945) is a Finnish sports medicine surgeon, physician, orthopedist, and professor.

[3] 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.

[4][5] Orava has performed surgery on many other top athletes as well, including Emanuela Tessitore (old promise of the italian athletic) Marco van Basten, Haile Gebrselassie, Merlene Ottey, Andrea Barzagli, Paul Pogba, Didier Deschamps, Fábio Coentrão, Pep Guardiola, and Ousmane Dembele.

[2] Spanish runner, Marta Domínguez, referred to Orava as ”como díos” – like a God.

[3] Orava lives in Naantali, Finland, and speaks Finnish, Swedish, English, German, Spanish and Italian.