First let me point out the the first pic of the skeleton is not Dr. Honsik. I can assure you that…read morehe is well and alive. Now that I got the comedy out of the way, lets get onto he good stuff. I've worked with Ken several times. He has tried to prevent his colleagues for doing surgery by trying his level best with non-interventional therapies. It is unfortunate that I had to have several but he was wildly successful on one shot that he has earned his place in my Orthopedic hall of fame book. He tried to prevent surgery or fix the pain on a couple of occasion in my much worked on right shoulder. That damage was too great to be fixed by Prp. He did the best he could but you aren't going to spin out enough growth factors from the blood of a man in his 60's but he did his best and he has a VERY skilled hand at injections. After my third shoulder surgery, I found a tear in my forearm tendons. it was not complete but very deep and very long. He wanted to do another round of PRP but I brought up a different approach. One of the stem cell therapies. I've been in Big Pharma for 30 years and while I am not a Doctor, I know my way around data. Doc was open to the discussion... which was funny as hell with the banter that went between us like two top tennis players volleying back and forth. He decided that I made a decent enough case to give it a shot. Doc decided on Whartons Jelly. I won't go into specifics but Insurance doesn't cover the product and I paid out of pocket. The $1,500 I paid was cheap as hell for the results we had. Six weeks post surgery and with zero PT (my fault) I went back for an eval. It was completely resolved. We both looked and almost shat ourslevess at the results. It was completely resolved. Totally and completely resolved. As I am having deterioration in my left ankle from a previous surgery that was no the surgeon's fault, I am planning on calling Ken next week to get him to inject my left ankle. It hasn't split yet and this might just keep that from happening. You can't go wrong with Dr. Honsik. He will listen and he will achieve by doing his level best to prevent his colleagues from having to cut me open yet again. You? ... You could you do worse for sure. Could you do better? NO. He is the man.

Dr. Ken Honsik and team of experts took such good care of my husband during stem cell therapy for…read moreknees. Their organization combined with his thoughtful explanation of each step made the procedure painless and stress-free. We were in the great care of a professional team that cares for their patient's outcome. Highlights recommend this team of professionals.

Dr. Eppley had worked on my right shoulder twice now. The first time was to fix what someone else…read morehad not done a proper job in 2002 plus I had ongoing overuse injuries combined with an AC break from being in an ocean, in maui off the Four Seasons that I had no business being in and paid the price. His work was excellent and the repairs held for years. However, being the over achiever that I am I snapped the rotator cuff again in 23 (I am hard on my body) and he had to go back in. Long before we did any work, he did try non interventional therapy but my damage was too extensive. The third surgery the damage to my rotator cuff was so great that it could not be reattached. His advice was that I would need a complete replacement where the ball and socket are reversed. BUT, most importantly, he told me to wait at least 5 years. He gave me solid reasons and I have waited and with no pain mind you. Well, as I have taken up blacksmithing, I am at that place where that shoulder will need to be replaced. Let me tell you that I am going BACK to Eppley. I like him, I trust him and he has done thousands of these. You don't want the guy who has done a dozen. You want the guy who has done 25,000. On top of all this he is a nice guy and approachable. His knowledge is impeccable. He is a good Doctor and I am not one to be in awe of Doctors. I have worked with them daily for the last 30 years as a Pharma rep. I can tell the good from the bad and the good from the great. He falls into great. That's why I will be calling him next week to start the evaluation process for my shoulder. You all must understand the surgical outcomes can be affected by many factors. Many of them patient induced or just plain old back luck. Orthos by nature are problem solvers. They see an issue and fix it. If you have bad posture or poor body mechanics or any number of other factors the failure is on you. Discuss and fix that stuff with your PT's and treat PT like a job. I trust Dr. Eppley enough to replace that shoulder and to do it properly. The ultimate outcome will be up to me and how well I follow instructions. Medicine is filled with risk. No two humans are exactly alike. Epply is a guy I trust to work around issues. That's why I am going back to him without hesitation. If an issue arises, him and I will face it together. I have zero hesitation on this one. You should feel the same.

Great doctor and great care! Also like the staff that support Dr. Eppley! I had my first knee…read moresurgery done by Dr. Eppley and was up and walking within two hours, had very little pain and was able to complete occupational and physical therapy without much discomfort! I was concerned because I heard from others that the recovery would take six months to a year, but my experience was totally different! I feel so blessed that I was referred to Dr.Eppley has years of experience, tells you exactly what is happening and what will happen! Excellent surgeon! Of course he will do my second knee soon!!

Avoid Strotz. How else does one day nicely that he is arrogant, mean, sexist, and gave inaccurate…read moreinformation? He has the worst bed side manner possible. Prior to seeing an X-ray or an MRI, he said that Dr Eppley and 90% of surgeons would not operate on my husband's ACL because he was 64 and too old. After seeing the MRI and xray , three surgeons immediately agreed to o operate, My husband has no prior knee injuries or arthritis. He is a mountaineer, backcountry skier, expert alpine skier and soccer player. He did not read his notes and when told about a recent tragedy in our family, he asked meanly why we there. When I started crying he ordered me to " get control of myself. " Twice. Maybe it was a bad day, but as another doctor said, who he refused to operate on because of gender, why is he still practicing? One has to wonder.

I took my wheelchair bound husband to this senile fellow today and we were both booted out because…read moreI dared to open my mouth to venture an educated guess about the severe pain in his knees when my husband was asked about the cause and replied that he had no idea why he was in such pain. The dr. knew nothing of his medical history or why he was paralyzed, but told me to be quiet, which I did. Hearing the history might have helped him diagnose, but he didn't want to hear it. He then had to take a lengthy break to ask his associate for a "pep talk" (to quote him). When he returned he asked my husband a couple fairly irrelevant questions. He told the dr. to talk with me because I was more familiar with the details as he had been semi comatose for 2 months while in the hospital and it would be more efficient to get the information from me. The dr. replied that there are some patients he just couldn't deal with (??) and we should leave. He added that he just couldn't deal with the "back and forth". Neither of us have any idea what he found so hard to deal with or what "back and forth" he was talking about--other than that each of us had spoken briefly at some point in response to a query from him. I then said it had been quite a long trip to see him and a lot of trouble to bring a wheel chair bound patient and asked him about the Hippocratic oath he had taken. He lied about the contents of the oath (I was referring to his duty to help those who are sick and seek his help) and said the oath told him to tell the truth and he was doing that. I looked it up and it doesn't say anything of the kind. In any case, his behavior was bizarre. He was attempting to gain information, which my husband was supplying, and which I added to briefly, but agreed to be silent when asked, although I could have answered his questions quickly and succinctly so that we could proceed with a diagnosis. No other dr. has objected to this. In fact, I have been routinely complimented on my succinct and accurate presentation of his very complicated medical history, and I was quiet after he silenced me for the one sentence I spoke when my husband couldn't answer the question. Patients are encouraged to bring a family member to help give information and receive information during a dr's visit so I find this dr's reaction, as I said, bizarre. My conclusion, based on his temperamental performance, is that he has severe personality problems that affect his ability to perform professionally. He appeared quite aged and it's likely he's becoming senile and it's time to retire. Or perhaps he needed lunch and wanted to get rid of us so he could hit the hospital cafeteria across the street. We saw him heading that way immediately after our dismissal. He didn't take fluid from my husband's knee, which his ID dr had requested, and left us without an appt. with another dr after waiting a week for this appt. In other words, he left us stranded, on our own, to deal with the pain, with no appt. with another dr., no idea what was going on with the hot, swollen knee, the complicated medical history, recent hospitalization for sepsis, currently on IV antibiotics for 6 weeks, no interest in learning any of this even after reading the ID dr's note requesting fluid and analysis of fluid from knee. He didn't give a rat's ass. He just had his nose out of joint over something and apparently his ego had been injured, which was his only concern. This guy could not have been less professional or less caring.

In short, if you have any choice in the matter, I would stay far, far away from Dr. Reiley. The…read morename itself makes my body tense up with anger, and if you have the time and energy to read the following, you will see why. MY STORY -- PART ONE Let me start at the beginning ... A few years back, I had a tiny fracture in one of the bones in my ankle from a lacrosse injury. I had some pain with walking -- nothing horrible, but not something I wanted to live with forever. Dr. Reiley was recommended to me as someone who "specializes in the foot and ankle." If I had known then what I know now, I would never have gone to see him, and my whole life might have been very different, but of course I DID see him, and I trusted that he (as an orthopedic surgeon) would be able to figure out the best treatment for my injury. When I went in, Dr. Reiley took some X-rays of my ankle (which he also did at every appt that followed) and agreed that I had a small ankle fracture. He said that there were surgical options, but that the surgery would be just as likely to make it worse as to make it better. So, he suggested a non-surgical approach: simply non-weight-bearing. He described this as the "conservative approach," and that seemed smart to me (obviously I didn't want any unnecessary surgery). He had an assistant put my leg into a hard cast, told me to get crutches, and said I should come back in three months. Well, obviously 3 months on crutches was not enjoyable. But, I figured, okay, this is what my ankle needs to heal, so that's fine. After it was over, I came back to Dr. Reiley. He took another X-ray and said that the fracture was still there and that I should continue to stay off the ankle, but now I could put it in a removable "boot" so that it would be easier to shower. I asked as many questions as I could before he left the room (he has a way of suddenly disappearing), and while he was with me he made it clear that even though the boot was removable, I should not put ANY weight on my foot. He gave me no exercises whatsoever to do with the foot; he just said to rest it. Once again he said he would see me back in a couple months. Over the next few months, my body began to hurt all over. My shoulders and neck were killing me from the constant use of crutches, and I could barely sleep at night from the pain in my back, neck, and shoulders. I was prescribed NSAIDS, which I continued to take for a long time and which contributed to the development of gastrointestinal problems, but that is a whole different story. When I called Dr. Reiley's office to tell him about the pain and to try to get some clarification on exactly how long I would need to be on crutches, it turned out that he was on vacation and would be unreachable for a month. Okay, great. When he finally got back to me, the message the receptionist gave me was to just make sure to not put ANY weight on it, because it might mess up any healing that had occurred. So I suffered through another month and returned to see him (it is literally embarrassing for me to write this, because I can't believe that I continued to see him, but at this point I really did trust that despite his poor bedside manner, at least he knew what he was doing -- Unfortunately I was wrong). When I saw him this time, after being on crutches for about 7 months, the X-ray he took showed severe osteoporosis throughout my foot and ankle -- so much that my bones barely showed up on the X-ray at all. (It's not shocking that my foot had developed osteoporosis after not touching the ground for 7 months, but he seemed very surprised by this). For the first time, he showed a little concern and called a colleague who is a Rheumatologist because he was worried that I had arthritis. Arthritis!? Thus began the month of seeing 5 or 10 different doctors -- rheumatologists, podiatrists, orthopedic surgeons, you name it. I was diagnosed with Psoriatic Arthritis (even though I didn't have psoriasis, and my bloodwork came back negative for any arthritis signals) and put on steroids. Another doc diagnosed me with Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome, which was soon contradicted by two other doctors I saw. Finally, I saw an orthopedic surgeon who didn't give me a crazy diagnosis: she just said, "You have been off of this foot for too long, and now everything is inflamed. It's going to hurt, but you need to just try to walk on it again, because every month that you stay off it, it's just going to get harder." (FOR PART TWO, SEE DR. REILEY'S PAGE FOR HIS BERKELEY OFFICE).

I have been treating with Dr. K for about 2 years now, and she is a very skilled and caring…read moreacupuncturist. I am a recreational athlete who works out about 6 times per week. This includes jiu jitsu/grappling, which is generally tough on the joints, muscles, and ligaments. Dr. K's treatments have helped me fully recover from a handful of injuries over the years, and has also kept my body far better maintained and structurally sound for consistent injury prevention. I have many friends who are much younger than me but far more injury prone, and I attribute my durability in part to working with Dr. K. I plan to work with her for years to come!

Kristina has done amazing things for my knee. It is bone on bone, and until I can get a knee…read morereplacement my orthopedic surgeon suggested Aleve, which was insufficient for the pain. I was basically house bound, until I started seeing Kristina. At my first appointment (on the phone to discuss what was wrong and figure out how to treat it) she warned me that it would probably get worse before it got better, and admittedly the first two appointments were rough. But then it was like a switch flipped. I saw her, and the next day I could function some. Every time I see her the period of functionality afterwards gets longer. I can now go to the gym and walk again. I still need that knee replacement, but I am no longer house bound, and can live my life again. I would recommend her to anyone having joint issues.

I have been a patient of Dr. Woodcox since 2010. Him and his staff are great and care for their…read morepatients. He knows his stuff and explains his treatment in detail. He has treated my left ankle and done some reconstructive surgery. Its been fine since. Highly recommended!

After a few years of on an on the job injury and surgery, Woodcox flipped on me cruelly, and…read moredropped me as a patient due to heartless Maria, the domineering racist medical assistant who runs the office, and him. I had simply asked to speak to him of an unfortunate morning appt experience where me and another guy-both over 70, who had 10:30 and 10:45 appts, were made to wait while an 11:00 young hispanic man was taken in before us. Woodcox would not even apologize. The 10:30 guy paced back and forth before the recept window and Maria said she "sees him". BTW: we had to listen to her when a hispanic guy came out from his appt and for 10 min she berated him for never learning to speak Spanish. Not office etiquette. When Maria found out that I spoke privately to Woodcox about appt times, she flew into a judgmental rage at me, went into his room and when the two came out she would not make another appt for me but instead said coldly to call her when I got home. It wasn't clear to me at first as she was being vague, sneaky, manipulative that she had gotten Woodcox to drop me as a patient just because I advocated for myself. To do this over such a small issue, the way in which he did it, and to a senior disabled citizen with a workers comp case, ruins my case. There was no care at all for my life and how they were affecting it. He should know better how to end an OWCP case for a person with a partially disabled foot/ankle to get settlement but did not care and just had me hanging on each month coming in so he could collect payment. Now he only sees patients one day a week and paid to be a QME so he has his income set. I should have had partial foot loss settlement, but without his recommendation and exam for that I cant. No matter how many like him, this is also how he is. He really doesn't care about people though he puts on a good act for the money. Too hard to find another OWCP dr for long term injury. Very cruel guy and staff. When they do wrong they turn it on patient.

I have nothing but positive reviews for this establishment. My dad was sadly diagnosed with stage…read moreIV bladder cancer. Once treatment was not an option he was referred to home hospice and they quickly enrolled him and began providing comfort care. They made sure he had all the equipment he needed to be comfortable. This included medication, O2, bed etc... Unfortunately my dad passed away within 2 weeks of home hospice but I believe he died comfortably and with no pain. They were always responsive when I called and when my dad passed, they helped me give him his last bath. In these tough times we think that we are the only ones that need attention, I get it, I've been there but they did a marvelous job and I'm pleased with the support we received. Thank you all!!!

If I could give 0 stars I would. My mom received a referral after a hospitalization and discharge…read moreon a Wednesday. The intake nurse called me on Friday and left a voice message that she would like to see my mom the following morning. She also texted me at the same time. I immediately called my mom to confirm and called her back in less them 10 minutes. No answer so I left a voice mail and a text to confirm Saturday. No response even though i returned the message immediately. The following evening she text again asking to come on Monday. I left a voice message and asked her to call me to schedule to avoid another miscommunication. No reply ever. My mom never got the home health she was ordered. No follow up whatsoever by the nurse or the company. It's a good thing I am a proactive daughter and followed up right away with her primary care physician. A more vulnerable patient without an advocate would be left high and dry.