Sports Medicine Doctors - Bradenton, FL

"My son tore his ACL & we got an HMO referral to Pulluru. He didn’t put time/effort into preparing my son for surgery & barely said a word at the pre-op/post-op appointments. (Although he did say my son wouldn’t play basketball again & only professional athletes who train 5 hours a day could make a comeback.) The recovery was horrible. It didn’t make sense for the recovery to be so awful for a healthy, athletic, 17 yr. old. Nine months later, my son was back in the operating room. Pulluru left the practice & we were referred to a new doctor. He explained everything in detail & professionally described how the last surgery wrecked my son’s knee. The 2nd surgery lasted over four hours. The new Dr. said it was his most difficult case & he never saw anything like it. Once the new grafts heal in 4-6 months, my son will have to endure a 3rd surgery to continue to fix the wreck Pulluru created. Based on the other poor reviews, I sincerely question the validity of the positive reviews. Beware!"

"I've had two procedures by Dr. Connolly. First, October 2020, right hand carpal release procedure. At this time, the scar is barely noticeable. As expected, due to the loosening of the binding ligament, it's a little harder to use chopsticks... February 2021, left total knee replacement. I WILL be going back to him for the carpal release procedure on my left hand and my right knee replacement in the somewhat near future. After my last ortho doctor kept preaching that I'm too young (mid-50's) for a knee replacement, the arthritic damage spread from the medial compartment (bone-bone, two previous surgeries) to the lateral and shot down my preferred partial replacement. I've been in several times for joint effusion in both knees for drainage."