Well, you know you are hurting when you have to go to an orthopedic doctor... And you know you…read moredon't want to, but for the sake of longevity, sometimes ya gotta bite the bullet... I personally hate doctors because they all tell me to rest and do less... As in: not listening... Dr. Pereles, on the other hand... Is a veteran endurance athlete. He was recommended to me by a handful of folks who sang his praises. Trusting them, I made an appointment as soon as possible. I was most delighted to learn that I could make an appointment that matched my schedule in just a couple days. They have an on-line patient information portal, but they ask for all that info in person... So, I am not too sure about the value of the portal except to check your appointment? Day of appointment... Arrive early... And I am seem early, too. Awesome. It gets better- thanks to Dr. Pereles. He identified and diagnosed my issue, then provided some stellar advice, and Most importantly, didn't need to quit my training. Smarter training was advised, and I am so happy for the insightful medical advice. I would recommend this fabulous doc to any endurance athlete.

This is the worst PT unit I've used and I speak as one having done years of PT In the area . The…read morestaff uses a lot of trainees who are randomly called on during your session with the actual PT who seems to have several clients at one time and can't focus on you . The aides seem incompetent and often don't know what your warmup routine is or what you're there for, as if the information is not updated for your visit. Also, some of the therapists seem over aggressive in their treatments, and as an older patient I don't and can't do heavy weights and frankly I got worse going to my sessions. They also leave you unsupervised for gaps of time where no one can correct your form or take your heavy weight from you. The therapists also are always having in depth conversations about sports, their weekends, their lives, their pets, as they 'work' on you and seem unfocused and careless about their jobs. The front desk staff is also rude and disrespectful at times and there is always a backlog of patients waiting to be checked in! I came here because it's close to my house and i have used a doctor from this practice for years but I've now found other options for my treatment and PT!

Dr. Wolff and his office are by far and away the BEST sports medicine practitioners I have ever…read moreworked with. The care, attention, confidence, and professionalism with which I've been treated has been above and beyond. I have suffered from Cam impingement and a labral tear for 5.5 years. I was hesitant to get surgery at first, but now I am very glad I underwent the operation. From scheduling my operation out of state months ago (I live in Michigan), to when I received FAI and labral tear corrective surgery 1 weeks ago, to recovering now: Dr. Wolff and his office have been so easy to reach and so helpful all along the way. I could not imagine going through this with anyone else.

First and foremost Dr. Wolff and his team to include his fantastic PA Grey Davenport were…read moregregarious, empathetic, responsive and most importantly exceedingly proficient in their craft. I have dealt with bilateral hip pain for 4 years without proper diagnosis. Dr. Wolff knew what was wrong in 5 minutes of my exam. I had a right Hip Arthroscopy for FAI with Labrum Reconstruction on 4-19-2024. Immediately after surgery my hip pain was gone and the recovery was a breeze. I do not know if I am the exception but I was walking without crutches by day 11-12 without any issues. If you need any hip procedure in the DMV Dr. Wolff and his team are without exception the best Orthopedic Surgical Group around! Highly recommend!

Dr. Siram is an outstanding orthopedic surgeon. During my initial consultation he reviewed my…read moremedical records and discussed treatment options. His imaging diagnosis convinced me of the importance to move forward with hip replacement surgery. Summit Orthopedics works closely with Sibley Hospital so I was able to schedule a Monday morning surgery and overnight stay at the hospital. The Nurse Navigator Supervisor at Sibley provided information on Pre-Op procedures and an appointment with Sarah, Summit's Nurse Practitioner, involved a review of the surgical procedures and the list of medications with a review of frequency. Dr. Siram brought together a great surgical team comprised of the Sibley Hospital Orthopedic doctors and nursing staff and an anaesthesiologist. The first nurse assigned to my post-Op care placed top priority on Pain Control and coordinated a meeting with In-House PT/OT Team to review and practice the Post-Operative exercises. I completed 2 weeks of In-Home physical therapy with Potomac Home Health Care, affiliated with Johns Hopkins and Sibley. The PT specialist was exceptional: checked vitals; reviewed my medications; provided a home exercise plan that helped me to begin walking with and without a cane, before starting In Office Post-Op PT. I would strongly recommend the Dr. Siram | Sibley Orthopedic Team.

Dr. Siram may be excellent an excellent surgeon, but how Summit runs its practice has, for me, been…read moreso frustrating that I can't recommend it. I don't think its 4.9 rating is deserved whatsover given what I dealt with. Reaching anyone is hard. The website doesn't list a main phone number; the numbers are buried in a "staff directory" drop-down. When you call, you get a high-call-volume message and waits of 15 to 40 minutes. One Friday I called at 3:00 p.m. and waited a full hour, until the office closed at 4:00, without ever reaching a person. On weekends, the phone system won't let you into any menu option, so you have to wait until Monday morning. Prescription refills are worse. The patient portal has no refill-request function, and my portal messages about refills (I have proof of three separate attempts, with follow-ups) were never answered. A refill can be requested by phone, but only through option #4 on the phone menu, which nobody would find intuitively. I left that message, with all the required details, on Thursday, Oct. 22, with two pain pills left, which meant my last pill would be Saturday, Oct. 24. As of Tuesday, Oct. 27, I still haven't heard back. An earlier refill message was never acknowledged either. The portal also had problems. By my count, Summit has only five locations: an office in Bethesda, an office at Foxhall in D.C., and three physical therapy facilities in Bethesda, Foxhall and Foggy Bottom. Yet until I raised it with a secretary earlier this year, I couldn't message my provider's team at all. The choices that came up included offices in Darnestown, Frederick and elsewhere in Western Maryland, but not Bethesda. The secretary told me to type "27" in the box to make the Bethesda office appear. No patient could be expected to guess that. It was fixed not long afterward. My care with Dr. Siram, whom I first saw in February for knee arthritis, raised further concerns. After a cortisone injection, I asked through the portal about a gel injection. The reply said only that I would have to come in for an evaluation. When I did, I was told I would have to wait six months, and a second staff member confirmed that by phone. At my June 12 visit, Dr. Siram told me the wait was really about insurance coverage, not a medical requirement. That visit was scheduled for 11:15 a.m. I arrived on time and was not seen until about 12:45. Only at 12:10 p.m. did front-desk staff tell me "he was running 15 minutes late." As a result, I missed an important 1:00 p.m. appointment elsewhere in Bethesda, and the doctor's apology for an 1.5 hour wait was half-hearted. When I dared to email him about thist, his reply was, in part, the snarkiest email I have ever received from a well-regarded professional. He wrote that my health was "a two way street" and that it was "incumbent upon [me] to ask questions." He said my own curiosity about treatment was "paper thin." I believe it is the doctor, with vastly superior knowledge, who should do the probing and informing after a condition has persisted. I would gladly share that email with the practice's management. Then came calls and texts over about three months from an unfamiliar Minnesota number saying a prescription was ready. The caller would not identify herself, the drug, or the pharmacy, and the texts urged me to call an 800 number or lose the prescription. It looked like a scam, and when the texts did not stop, it became bothersome. Eventually a caller told me the drug was "a gel something." I had never agreed to a gel injection, and none was ever prescribed for me Summit as far as I knew. I called Summit, spoke with a "Dan," who apologized and said he would fix the problem. Still another text came ten days after my first call to Dan; it was only after my second call to Dan that the text messages finally stopped. The medical expertise at Summit may be strong, but unreachable phones, unanswered refill requests, long unannounced delays, and confusing communications make getting care here needlessly difficult. In my view, going to Summit Orthopedics is a mistake.

As Michael's wife, I have watched him deal with this hip pain for most of our 33 years of marriage…read more I've seen how much it affected the way he walked, what he could do, and just his everyday life. More than anything, I wanted him to finally have a real chance to get out of pain. Traveling from California to Maryland for surgery was a big decision. Michael has been an attorney in San Diego for decades and knows many of the top surgeons here, so going across the country was not something we took lightly. The doctors we saw here were talking about a much bigger open surgery. My husband, being my husband, had an enormous list of questions. A lot of the answers were already available in the information Dr. Christoforetti had put together, and his physician's assistant, Brian, answered many of the others. When we met with Dr. Christoforetti, he carefully went through everything with us and never made us feel rushed, even with Michael's never-ending list. One of the things that made me feel much better was understanding that doing the surgery through small openings did not mean he could see less. With the camera, he could actually get a very detailed view of what was going on and repair what he found without putting Michael through the much larger open surgery that had been discussed. Over the years, Michael tried just about every type of treatment available -- injections, physical therapy, and other non-surgical treatments -- without lasting relief. It meant so much to me that Dr. Christoforetti was finally trying to fix the actual problem instead of just treating the pain again. As a wife, there is a different kind of trust involved. Michael had to trust the surgeon operating on him. I had to trust the person I was handing my husband over to. Dr. Christoforetti made that easy. I felt that he truly cared about Michael and treated him the way you would want someone to treat a member of your own family. His whole team was wonderful to us. Being so far from home made both of us nervous, and having a direct number to Brian, his physician's assistant, gave us a lot of comfort. Dr. Christoforetti, if you ever make it to California, there will always be a place for you at our table. You took such wonderful care of my husband, and I would love the chance to return the kindness by making you the best home-cooked Persian meal of your life.

I like how easy it was to make appointments and how accommodating and friendly the office staff has…read morebeen. For the past two visits, both appointments have been nearly all on-time, which I appreciate. The facility also has an in-house X-ray technician and machine, which cuts down on time. I can't emphasize on how much I really appreciate the aspect of how efficient the entire team there works. As strange as it may sound, I couldn't help but to feel like I am guilty of wasting everyone's time there, and I felt rushed and flushed out of there quickly. Yes, I love physicians who are on time and the office so efficient that I waltz out of there happy and ready to get on with the rest of my day. Maybe it's just me who felt bad about the reasons and cause of issues I have presented and I felt like there's really nothing anyone can do about it. Maybe I should just call it disappointment. I'm not sure. Whatever the case is, I will just go back to my regular orthopedic office I've come accustomed to.

The Centers for Advanced Orthopedics is a scumbag operation, funneling patients in and out as fast…read moreas possible, attempting to add on extra charges after-the-fact, lying about paperwork being sent out, and then lying ON the paperwork about it being 'past due'. They are unmistakably driven by profit over patient care, and are a perfect encapsulation of what's wrong with the American medical industry. I had 1 appointment with Dr. Keeling. He was late. He then rushed through our appointment as fast as humanly possible, spending maybe 6 or 7 minutes with me. He told me I had some medical-jargon-named condition in my knee, and that I should start PT in their PT office ASAP, ideally that day. He then tried to leave at the point in the appointment where a good doctor would then sit and talk me through the condition, what I should do, what I should expect, etc. But no, he didn't even tell me the used name (arthritis), and provided no helpful advice or guidance going forward. He just wanted me signed up for PT and he wanted the appointment OVER. So I got home and had to google all of the information that a good doctor would have provided, and, ya know, trust that what I'm finding on the internet is sound medical advice. That would have been enough for a 1-star review, but there's more scumbaggery. Within days of the appointment, I started receiving urgent emails from their office claiming I had an Overdue Balance with them. After getting 5 or 6 of these emails without having gotten a physical bill for them for anything, I called in (they don't have an email address). The woman who answered assured me that the physical bill had been sent out and I would see it in a few days at the most. Several MONTHS go by, and I receive nothing except more urgent emails. Today, the physical bill finally arrived 3 months after the appointment. The bill claims a SECOND co-payment is owed, and that I am 60 days past due. It's this kind of used-car-salesmen nonsense that keeps people, in general, hesitant to go to doctors at all. So my advice would be to stay far, far away from this profit center and Dr. Keeling.

Excellent Physician. I trust him with my health. Very…read moregrateful of Dr. Keeling, MD. It is sometimes hard to find a good Doctor. Glad that I found Dr Keeling"s practice.

Sometimes, it is the people behind the scenes, that make all the difference in the world. I want to…read moregive a huge shoutout and thank you, to Stacey in the call center. She is just the nicest, kindest person ever. Stacey, advised me to go to the urgent care center when I couldn't get in to see an orthopedic doctor before the weekend. She even helped me find a good one. Then, when an appointment opened up, she called me and booked the appointment for me at Ortho Bethesda. Stacey, you are an angel. I went to see Dr. Gazdag and he was wonderful. He was funny and an excellent professional. We took more X-rays, so if you see a light in Rockville, it is just me glowing at night. I am in a boot and a cane, but no surgery needed. Amen! The people who work with Dr. Gazdag and Ortho Bethesda were awesome. They were very nice and helpful. I got great care and I have respect for the office. And, thank you, Stacey for making sure I was taken care of.

TLDR- I went here with the impression the OT would get my healed fractured wrist back to working…read moreagain, but he did not and the professionalism and care seemed to exist for exactly one month of appointments- which doesn't seem like a timeline based on rehab/healing- but insurance or the bottom line. I could be wrong. But my wrist sure doesn't work, but I "graduated" in exactly a month. I've never had an injury like this before. I broke my wrist really badly. Or more specifically- I had a left distal radius fracture with associated distal ulna fracture, then ORIF surgery/ open reduction, internal fixation- so I have a plate in my wrist now. I'd already tried a physical therapy mill where you learn and do your own exercises independently, you even timed yourself- so Danny the OT here was a huge step up. He seemed like he genuinely cared about what he does and the patient's successful recovery. After the last experience I felt finally someone will help me get my hand and wrist back to working order. On our first appointment he scheduled us for the next month of appointments. And funny enough, I "graduated" on that last scheduled day. I had no idea it would be the last day until the end of the appointment. It was also the first time he had a student/intern or something shadow him- which I felt uncomfortable with. It is just a hand, but talking about your defects or the vulnerability of not being able to do very simple things- is not something I feel comfortable talking about in front of a person I never met. It felt very impersonal. And despite the joy they expressed at my "graduation"- from the OT, the intern, and the OT's assistant. They all congratulated me. Which felt confusing, because I can't open a medicine bottle. I can't clasp anything on my back. I can't really twist any cap. I walk my dog with a waist leash because I don't have the strength on dexterity in that hand to walk him anymore with my hands. But I graduated. I was told this as if it was cause for celebration but I just thought- no one's going to help me. I took the steps instead of the elevator as I left the office for privacy because I started crying. I cried walking down the stairwell. I felt just abandoned with my often painful weak wrist and severely limited ROM. I don't know how to fix my wrist on my own and no one seems to care enough to treat me until I have a working hand/wrist. He was obviously done assisting me but as I looked up certified hand therapists - the best ones are in his office. He was done assisting me, but why didn't he recommend his colleague? A CHT. So I can open medicine bottles, and honestly just clasp my bra in the back. Or really a hundred things that come up every day. I don't understand why he couldn't help me fix this. It seems so wrong to just not at least refer me to someone. Every metric that determines a successful wrist rehab is abominable for me. By the range of motion numbers, I desperately need OT or a certified hand specialist. I was still dropped without notice or a path to figuring out how to tie my shoes in one try. I felt just hopeless about it. Like he thought this was good enough. My trust and hope is near depleted. It's just a hand. I know. But it's a part of me. Every time I can't do something I used to be able to do it's like a reminder I'm not whole yet. And I wish I didn't have to fight for the most basic rehab care. I'll start again, when I can muster the emotional energy to at least act like I have additional reserve of trust. I don't know if this is what people have to fight through, but it's not right. Especially when you're at your most vulnerable. I feel bad for everyone just trying to recover, who is left with a defective piece of themselves and the confusing task of navigating a way towards just being whole again, or even just regaining the ability to clasp their own darn bra.

Part of the AA Medical group. My favorite doctors are here. Easier to park than the Belcher…read morePavilion at the main AAMC campus. Located in the Johns Hopkins medical building right off of RT 32. I was in and out in less then an hour. Try that at the main campus! Plus no headaches or trying to find a spot in the garage. Friendly staff there too!

Kudos to Dr. Kwasi Shariff and his staff at AAMG. I was pleased by the services at the Odenton…read morelocation. Appointment scheduling over the phone was a breeze. During my visit, I found this office was very well-managed in a clean, modern facility. The staff was pleasant and highly professional. Thanks for your excellent care!

Dr Petruccelli took the time to clearly explain my injury and course and of action. He also is…read moreamazing at giving injections.

Dr Gabriel Petruccelli is one of the best Ortho surgeons around and he has a great bedside manner…read morewhich is rare in surgeons! He shows you the X-rays , educates you and follows up diligently so you can see what is happening. He is always available to answer all questions. I also had a friend (over 60) who had a complete shoulder replacement. My friend showed me the X-rays and demonstrated how his shoulder works now - truly a miracle! He has completely recovered and has full use of his shoulder so he can do what he wants to do again. He followed through with all physical therapy but attributes the success to Dr. Petruccelli's skill as a surgeon.

I had knee surgery before many years ago by another physician. Dr. Annunziata is great! He is…read morestraightforward and I felt very comfortable with his diagnosis. I don't need surgery at this point, which is a huge relief. Bottom line, he is a physician for the Redskins and does good work. I'm not an athlete, but certainly want to be in good hands with a physician who is respected by many. What I liked about him most is that he explained the best and worst case scenario. I highly recommend him.

I texted this to a friend of mine who I recommended see Dr. Annunziata after a biking accident. I…read morefigured that I would post it here as well. "I remember how important it was to me and I figure you feel the same. I am grateful to have seen a dr that knew in one case (my knees) to go with physical therapy and no surgery, even after an extended and difficult time, but then to know to perform surgery on my shoulder and make it better than it was before. " Thanks Doc - I am forever grateful. (knees are great, throwing fastballs again - with the kids)

The staff is always friendly and efficient. The entire team at the office displayed a high level of…read moreprofessionalism and made me feel comfortable throughout my multiple visit. Dr. Gowda was not only knowledgeable but also took the time to explain my surgery procedure and address all my questions and concerns. I'm still in the healing process after my surgery but with continued therapy I expect a full recovery. Thank you Dr. Gowda. Maurice D.

I went to Dr. A. Gowda. For a clean up of a shoulder injury. He never explain to me what his…read moredecision was to work on my shoulder. He ended up cutting my Bicep! After a month the Bicep ruptured. Long story short. He refused to re-attach it. And because the is only a three week window, I couldn't get another surgeon to fix it. For the rest of my life, I have to live with a deformed arm with 40% strenght lost! Do NOT go to this guy. They are the worst. And part of ambulance Chasers. He is no. Good. I will leave a picture of his work.