Marc Pietropaoli, MD
Name & Role
Dr. Marc Pietropaoli, Founder & CEO of Victory In Motion, Home of Knee Repair, NOT Knee Replacement, TM and Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics | Regenerative Medicine Pioneer | Fellowship Trained Sports Medicine Orthopedic Surgeon
What I Do Here
I lead a team on a mission to end the need for knee replacements by 2043. At Victory in Motion, I combine cutting edge regenerative medicine with 27 years of sports medicine orthopedic surgery expertise to help people repair knees (and many other body parts)—not replace them.
What I’m Known For
Relentless innovation. I’m known for challenging the status quo, asking tough questions like, “Why are we still using 1960s technology to treat knees in 2025?”—and then doing something about it.
What Lights Me Up
Seeing someone who was told they “had no other option” reclaim their life through our Knee Repair, NOT Knee Replacement™ program. That moment when hope returns? Nothing compares to it.
My Path to Victory
My journey started in medical school in 1991, when I asked a chief resident if there was any way to grow back cartilage instead of replacing joints; was there a way to repair a knee and not replace it? He laughed, scoffed and literally yelled at me in that O.R. … “No, there is no way to grow back new cartilage, there is no way to repair a knee and cure arthritis; only knee replacement!”—but that moment lit a fire in me.
After training with Dr. James Andrews—the world’s top sports medicine surgeon, literally the GOAT—I founded Victory Sports Medicine in 2001 to treat people the right way: holistically, innovatively, and eventually without insurance red tape.
In 2020, when elective surgeries were shut down, I combined bone marrow aspirate cells which have stem cells and other cells that help the stem cells, Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP), the safest, most effective laser therapy-MLS laser, V-Fit total body fitness, strength and conditioning, genetic based nutrition, red light laser fat/weight loss-anti-inflammatory treatments, BHRT/functional medicine and many other tools/programs into our signature Knee Repair, NOT Knee Replacement™ programs. The outcomes were so good, based on our own tracking initially and now tracked by Databiologics a well respected national database Registry that tracks our results and several hundred other medical clinics’ results in the United States. Since then, we’ve never looked back.
My Victory Moment
I’ll never forget Diane, who came to us in her late 70s—told she “needed” a knee replacement or “suck it up in pain”. When she heard there was actually a third option: “Knee Repair, NOT Knee Replacement, TM”, she immediately said “I want that, I NEED to get back to Yoga and walking my dog!” She is now 3+ years pain-free, and stronger than she’d felt in decades, walking her dog every day and striking the warrior pose in Yoga, always impressing her social group of friends. That’s what Victory looks like.
Outside of Victory
God, family, Country! I’m also an avid runner, having run 7 marathons and countless other shorter races. I am a lifelong gardener and proud to be known as #FunFarmerDrP. I grow almost every fruit and vegetable that I can in addition to lemons from which I make limoncello, tap maple trees for syrup, and believe good medicine starts with good soil—both in the ground and in our lives.
Dr. Marc Pietropaoli, Founder & CEO of Victory In Motion, Home of Knee Repair, NOT Knee Replacement, TM and Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics | Regenerative Medicine Pioneer | Fellowship Trained Sports Medicine Orthopedic Surgeon
What I Do Here
I lead a team on a mission to end the need for knee replacements by 2043. At Victory in Motion, I combine cutting edge regenerative medicine with 27 years of sports medicine orthopedic surgery expertise to help people repair knees (and many other body parts)—not replace them.
What I’m Known For
Relentless innovation. I’m known for challenging the status quo, asking tough questions like, “Why are we still using 1960s technology to treat knees in 2025?”—and then doing something about it.
What Lights Me Up
Seeing someone who was told they “had no other option” reclaim their life through our Knee Repair, NOT Knee Replacement™ program. That moment when hope returns? Nothing compares to it.
My Path to Victory
My journey started in medical school in 1991, when I asked a chief resident if there was any way to grow back cartilage instead of replacing joints; was there a way to repair a knee and not replace it? He laughed, scoffed and literally yelled at me in that O.R. … “No, there is no way to grow back new cartilage, there is no way to repair a knee and cure arthritis; only knee replacement!”—but that moment lit a fire in me.
After training with Dr. James Andrews—the world’s top sports medicine surgeon, literally the GOAT—I founded Victory Sports Medicine in 2001 to treat people the right way: holistically, innovatively, and eventually without insurance red tape.
In 2020, when elective surgeries were shut down, I combined bone marrow aspirate cells which have stem cells and other cells that help the stem cells, Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP), the safest, most effective laser therapy-MLS laser, V-Fit total body fitness, strength and conditioning, genetic based nutrition, red light laser fat/weight loss-anti-inflammatory treatments, BHRT/functional medicine and many other tools/programs into our signature Knee Repair, NOT Knee Replacement™ programs. The outcomes were so good, based on our own tracking initially and now tracked by Databiologics a well respected national database Registry that tracks our results and several hundred other medical clinics’ results in the United States. Since then, we’ve never looked back.
My Victory Moment
I’ll never forget Diane, who came to us in her late 70s—told she “needed” a knee replacement or “suck it up in pain”. When she heard there was actually a third option: “Knee Repair, NOT Knee Replacement, TM”, she immediately said “I want that, I NEED to get back to Yoga and walking my dog!” She is now 3+ years pain-free, and stronger than she’d felt in decades, walking her dog every day and striking the warrior pose in Yoga, always impressing her social group of friends. That’s what Victory looks like.
Outside of Victory
God, family, Country! I’m also an avid runner, having run 7 marathons and countless other shorter races. I am a lifelong gardener and proud to be known as #FunFarmerDrP. I grow almost every fruit and vegetable that I can in addition to lemons from which I make limoncello, tap maple trees for syrup, and believe good medicine starts with good soil—both in the ground and in our lives.
