Michael G Ciccotti, MD

I just wrote a review which included my experience with Dr. Ciccotti under Rothman Institute. To throw my two cents in here too I had a wonderful experience with Dr. Ciccotti. I tore my ACL in April, had surgery in late May and am back to walking normally now in July. Though he is the Phillies head physician he was down to earth and extremely helpful. Obviously he is a wonderful surgeon based on how my knee is feeling now. Would definitely highly recommend him to others needing to see an orthopedist.

I went to Dr. Ciccotti numerious times because I am a baseball agent and he is the team orthopedist for the Philadelphia Phillies. The first time I went i had a peroneal nerve injury at the top of my fibular head. He could not diagnose and and gave me a cortisone injection which took the pain away for about a day. I had to go to another doctor to figure out what was happening.
around 8 years later I went back to him b/​c I had severe pain in both of my knees after hurting them both playing basketball one day. I had gone to one doctor Larry Miller who had done minor scopes on my right and left knees earlier and Dr. Miller could not figure out what was wrong. I was in tremendous pain and limping with both legs depending on the day. Dr. Ciccotti could not figure out what the problem was either. I then had to go to Dr. Mitch Friendman also of Jefferson who told me that all the problems were in my head and that there was nothing wrong with me. I then went to a 4^th doctor in Farmington, CT to get a 4^th opinion. I then sent my MRIs to a 5^th doctor, Keith Meister (the orthopedic surgeon of the Texas Rangers Baseball Club who also verified that I had a tear of some sort in my right knee. I then went back to Dr. Ciccotti to see if he would do the surgery and he declined saying that he would not perform surgery on a knee that was previously operated on… I then went back to Dr., Meister and he recommended Dr. Paul Sethi of Greenwich, CT. Seeing all of these doctors was over an 8 month period while I was in severe pain and depressed that the first 3 told me there was nothing wrong with me or that they couldn’t find anything wrong. I
I went up and saw Paul Sethi and he took a half hour with me to talk about what he saw on the MRIs. He said that there was definitely a cartilage tear and maybe a severe one in my right knee and that I might have had a minor tear of my later meniscus in my left knee. He said he could not promise me anything, but that he would do my best.
When he went into my right knee he not only saw a tear of the right lateral meniiscus and a tear of the artitular cartelige that lines the femor in a weight bearing area. A part of the meniscus had torn off and rolled up into a little ball which caused the tear of the articular cartilage as well. He performed Microfracture surgery as well. I was on crutches for 5 week while I still needed surgery on my left knee. It took me 18 months for my rehab on my right knee to recover. I then had surgery on my right knee and it had a 5% lateral meniscus tear. Paul Sethi was with me the whole way while Dr. Ciccotti didn’t even really try to help me.
It’s kind of frustrating to be a baseball agent and rooting for the Phillies your whole life and then to have the team Orthopedist not know what to do and then not want to help you. I am so lucky to have had Dr. Meister and Dr. Sethi take the time out and really help me when I need them. This review should really be one star, but that would be really vindictive.
Well… this is my story. I am sure Dr. Ciccotti has helped many get back to health. He just didn’t help me.