Orthopedic Care in Olney, Maryland

Olney sits at the northeastern edge of Montgomery County's suburban core, where the development pattern shifts from densely-built neighborhoods to larger lots, working farms, equestrian properties, and the historic Quaker community of Sandy Spring. The Olney Town Center along Georgia Avenue and MD-108 anchors a community with a notably stable, family-rooted character — many of our Olney patients have lived in the area for decades and are now treating the orthopedic problems of midlife and beyond. The Sherwood High School athletic program, the Olney Boys and Girls Community Sports Association, and the surrounding youth and adult recreational leagues round out a community where active sport is a year-round feature of family life — soccer, baseball, basketball, lacrosse, and the equestrian culture that comes with Sandy Spring and the surrounding horse country.

Maryland Orthopedic Specialists is approximately fifteen minutes from most of Olney. Our Rockville physical therapy facility at 1071 Seven Locks Road — in the Potomac Woods Shopping Center near Walgreens and O'Donnell's Market — is the closest MOS location geographically, accessible via MD-108 and Georgia Avenue south to Norbeck Road, then west to Rockville. The Rockville location is dedicated specifically to orthopedic and sports medicine physical therapy. For surgical consultations, MRIs, casting, PRP and biologics, and image-guided procedure work, our Bethesda office at 6710-A Rockledge Drive — about twenty-five minutes south — is the surgical home. Some Olney patients also use our Germantown office at 19847 Century Boulevard, accessible via MD-108 west, which offers a similar full clinical workup.

The injury profile from Olney leans toward midlife and older adult orthopedics. We see a high volume of rotator cuff disease in patients in their fifties, sixties, and seventies — both partial-thickness tears that respond well to non-operative management when caught early, and full-thickness tears that often benefit from arthroscopic repair with biologic augmentation. Knee and hip osteoarthritis are common, often in active patients who want to keep playing tennis, golfing, cycling, gardening, and walking comfortably. These are the patients who are best served by a careful conversation about the spectrum of options — activity modification, weight management, physical therapy, image-guided injections (corticosteroid, hyaluronic acid, PRP), and ultimately joint replacement when the time comes, with modern rapid-recovery protocols.

The Sherwood athletic population and the area's youth sports clubs contribute a steady stream of pediatric and adolescent injuries — ACL tears, meniscus tears, shoulder dislocations, ankle sprains, growth-plate fractures, and overuse problems. The equestrian community in Sandy Spring and the surrounding properties produces a particular subset of injuries — fall-related fractures, shoulder dislocations, and knee injuries — that our sports medicine and trauma-experienced team handles routinely.

Our sports medicine team — Dr. Christopher Raffo, Dr. John Christoforetti, and Dr. James Gardiner — together cares for the shoulder, knee, and general sports medicine workload from Olney. Dr. Gardiner brings more than 30 years of practice experience to the team. Common procedures for Olney patients include rotator cuff repair (with or without biologic augmentation like Regeneten), ACL reconstruction with quadriceps autograft or patellar tendon (BPTB) autograft, meniscus repair, arthroscopic shoulder stabilization with labral repair for shoulder instability and SLAP/Bankart labral tears, and partial and total joint replacement with rapid-recovery protocols. Dr. Christoforetti's hip preservation practice handles all arthroscopic labral repair, FAI correction, and joint-preserving osteotomies. For hand, wrist, and elbow injuries — common in this community's adult population — Dr. Peter Fitzgibbons offers fellowship-trained upper-extremity care, including carpal tunnel, trigger finger, and thumb-base arthritis. Dr. Gary Feldman handles foot and ankle problems.

A meaningful share of what we do for Olney patients is non-operative — image-guided injection, structured physical therapy at our Rockville facility, activity modification, and biomechanical correction. When surgery is the right answer, modern arthroscopic and rapid-recovery protocols are designed to get patients back to gardening, golf, tennis, walking, and recreational sport in weeks to months, not years.

If you live in Olney, Brookeville, Sandy Spring, or anywhere along the MD-108 corridor — getting an orthopedic problem evaluated should not require driving out of the area for a basic consultation.