Brad Thomas, MD

Dr Thomas allegedly repaired my ruptured patella tendon in Sept 2015. After months of PT my knee remained swollen. Every month i told him this and he prescribed draining my knee, a prp injection, arp therapy, acupuncture etc. A true cash cow business. At 7 months he did an MRI revealing a detached tendon. 7 months later for an MRI? Thomas said he never had a failed surgery and the problem was my «protoplasm». Protoplasm? Seriously?
I told him i wanted all my records and would seek a second opinion. He agreed and walked out. Never heard from him again other then his billing department who also screwed up. The records received were incomplete. No PT notes and no operative report.
I selected Dr Peter Borden to repair my knee. After 7 weeks i am so far ahead and improving, hardly any swelling and excellent care.
I recommend Dr Borden highly. Stay clear of Dr Thomas who i would never trust surgically.

Bri, the surgery scheduled, was fabulous. Smart, focused, personable and definitely a patient advocate. Efficiently scheduled my rotator cuff procedure.

Was not going to write anything, but since I have to see an ortho person and came across Brad Thomas, I felt the need to write about my husband’s experience 3 years ago. He had a torn meniscus which Dr. Thomas supposedly repaired. He did not. My husband went to him repeatedly and told him that things were no better. He even wanted to sell him some vitamins which he carries in his office. After about the 4^th visit, Dr. Thomas suggested that he could have a problem where, after surgery, blood does not reach the area. He finally figured this out and said, «Well, we could do an MRI.» By this time, my husband had finally had it and went to another ortho doc who specializes in knees and hips. Dr. Andrew Yun, who is fabulous! He took an X-​ray– not even an MRI– and could tell immediately that the so-​called repaired meniscus was not receiving a good blood supply and my husband needed a partial knee replacement. Dr. Yun performed the surgery and my husband’s knee is as good as new. Would definitely NOT recommend Dr. Thomas.

I’ve seen Dr. Thomas for shoulder surgery and he’s amazing and very caring. The staff is very supportive and efficient and always friendly which is important when you feel vulnerable at times. I highly recommend BCO for anyone that wants to find the right Doctor. Even if I moved, I would find a way to come back here!

Came in May 2014 for torn rotator cuff. Met with Dr. Brad Thomas and staff from Beach Cities Orthopedic Center. Dr. Brad and staff went above and beyond to fix and repair my left shoulder. The post operative physical therapy staff helped out tremendously with vital range of motion techniques and stretches. I am a mother of two small children with a hectic schedule and I would highly recommend Dr. Brad and staff of Beach Cities to families with sports injuries as well as work injuries.

Boy, was my shoulder torn up by the time I finally did something about it. My primary doc recommended Dr. Brad Thomas, as she also had her shoulder repaired by him. That was good enough for me, and am I grateful to her (and him!) for the excellent results. It was a complicated surgery, and Dr. Thomas is a brilliant surgeon with a very charming bedside manner. He’s positive and very supportive, and best of all, very sympathetic and patient. I am very impatient (ok…maybe a tad stubborn, too), so between him, his top-​notch staff, and the amazing OT staff, I am kept motivated and on the road to recovery. In many ways, I am even stronger now than before the injury, which is pretty remarkable. Healing is no easy job, but I’m very blessed to be in great hands.

Everyone who knows my family especially my active no fear son we are always at the orthopedic. Took me a couple doctors to finally find beach cities and I will never see or go to anyone else. Even my husband fractured his pelvis in 5 places and at the er refused to see anyone other than anyone at beach cities. Dr Thomas is by far the coolest down to earth dr I know and treats you correctly. The kaese family recommends Dr Thomas 100% I think everyone but 1 of my kids in my family of 5 have seen dr Thomas and wouldn’t have it any other way!

I have been coming to Dr. Thomas for 4 years. I love him he has addressed my issues with care. He has always had my best interest at hand. I have had two surgeries performed by him and two other procedures (gel injections and most recent PRP injection) knowing that I am deadly afraid of needles he has calmed my nerves. He is an amazing doctor and I would not and will not go to any other. I love Dr. Thomas. He is extremely professional the staff is amazing and his offices are high tech. He was the best choice I made.

I have injured my knee 4 times and counting. Me and my family are regular costumes here and they treat us very good. Not only is the office very modern looking, the staff is very nice and professional.

I have been a patient of doctor Bradley Thomas for many years off and on most recently for a work injury and i have received the best care very professional, caring, understanding of all my needs but the best is you have everything in one place (doctors, imagining, therapy) and two offices to choose from Torrance and Manhattan beach i would refer anyone and everyone that need very very awesome doctors and staff. I give Beach Cities Orthopedic a five star rating ! ! ! !
Keep up the fabulous work guys.

Dr Thomas has been fantastic with my 9 year old who broke her arm. She experienced little pain and was back to her regular antics while healing in a cast.

Dr. Thomas is a great doctor he has great communication with me and my family about anything going on with us. Quick to answer question and great with my Therapy sessions I recommend him to anyone looking for a great orthopedic surgeon.

I don’t even want to give him any star. I had a partial knee replacement with this fool. He put a replacement piece on my knee that was 3x s too big. I couldn’t bend my knee. PT was so painful. On several follow up appointments, Dr. Thomas blamed me, my physical therapist… anyone but himself. I know docs make mistakes, but have the decency to try to fix the problem. I went to Cedars for 2^nd opinion and learn just how badly he botched this surgery. Cedars held an investigation and spoke to several intern/​residents that worked under him at Harbor. The results were frightening. Cedars has barred him from ever having privileges there and head of Admissions came to my room after the corrective surgery, and apologized to me on behalf of medical community.
I was only looking for this doctor to have some integrity, and help fix the problem, but he is without honor of any kind… sad to think how he is raising his kids… money above all else
Stay away from him

I wrote this review in March/​April 2012, but didn’t post it yet. I thought I might have to go back here and didn’t want to be discriminated against. I also know some people have had good experiences here, and thought maybe mine was a fluke. I also also thought that maybe I should wait more than 3 – 4 months to see what happened. My knee doesn’t really feel any better than it did 2 years ago before surgery. I still have the patellar tendinitis. Review:
I went to Dr. Thomas for what I already knew was a torn meniscus. I looked at the MRI with him in person, and we both could see a large meniscus tear, and a lasrge perimeniscal cyst probably from irritation. As a matter of fact, he referred to it as a «no-​joke tear» and said «you’re definitely one of the tougher ones in your generation being able to deal with it until now». I had surgery at the center that I believe he has part ownership in, Coast Surgical Center in Torrance. I have a few reasons for the 1-​star review:
1– He and the office told me everything was in-​network so I didn’t call my insurance company to verify again. Turns out the surgical center is out of network, and so it ended up costing me close to a thousand dollars I wouldn’t have had to pay if it was in network like they said. I’m also SOL about it, because it’s not Dr. Thomas office’s problem.
2– My knee feels no better than it did before paying thousands and thousands of dollars to «fix» it. In fact it feels worse. I have patellar tendonitis in the path of both incisions in addition to the usual knee pain from the meniscal problems.
3– I don’t think he even removed the cyst. Although he pointed it out in the MRI, the post-​surgical report (which was not even provided until my physical therapist had to go through multiple channels of request) did not mention it at all. When they called him to ask if the cyst was removed, he answered with something «oh… umm, yes of course». Additionally immediately after the surgery, I wasn’t even given crutches to walk out on. That was kind of ridiculous.
I’ve had shoulder surgery as well, so I have something to compare the experience to. My shoulder surgery was much much more complicated, multiple parts had to be repaired, in a more intricate anatomy. Apparently all that had to be done to my knee was to cut out the torn off meniscus flap, and remove a cyst (which probably wasn’t done). I think it’s obvious why I’m not so happy with how this whole experience turned out.

Just had a surgery with Dr. Thomas last week and the procedure went well and the staff that he works with is awesome. I came to him for a second opinion and thank goodness I did because he prevented me from having a surgery that seems to not work out so well in the end. I have been battling a left knee problem since 1996 and recently this last dislocation blowout was the last straw for my leg. The regular MlD that I visit was talking about a heavy duty procedure and it was pretty scary, so I went to Dr. Thomas and he agreed about certain areas that need to be corrected but he explained that he could do it in a way that was not so invasive. To make a long story short; the other Dr. recommend a prodecure that opened up my leg from mid thigh to mid shin; and Dr. Thomas explained how that wouldn’t work in the end and recommend a procedure that just opened up 4 inches from my knee cap to mid shin. It was an outpatient procedure which was great! Whew, I’m only 24 and I’m falling a part!
He also has in house physical therapy and I am currently working with Arlene! I just really appreciate the time he took to explain things out and the wait to see him was not bad at all.
Give Dr. Thomas a try! Found out through the grapevine that a few co-​workers 100% recommend him.