About the reviewing physician

Medically reviewed by Jason Pirozzolo, DO, sports medicine and family medicine, Key West Concierge Orthopedics. Last reviewed July 2026.

Every clinical page on this site is reviewed by Jason Pirozzolo, DO, a dually board certified physician in sports medicine and family medicine who practices non-surgical orthopedics in Key West. That review is the difference between this site and the average injury article: a physician who treats these exact injuries, in this exact climate, has read every clinical claim here and signed off on it. This page explains the credential, what review actually means on this site, and where to verify all of it.

The credential

Dual board certification means two separately earned and maintained certifications: sports medicine and family medicine. The combination matters for a site like this one. Family medicine trains a physician to see the whole patient, the sleep, the medications, the diabetes that changes tendon healing, while sports medicine adds the injury-specific depth: diagnosis, imaging judgment, injection skills, and return-to-play decision making. Board certification is also not a one-time event: certifications are maintained through ongoing education and periodic reassessment, which is exactly the discipline a review-dated website borrows from. Both certifications are verifiable through the standard physician certification bodies, and the professional background behind them is documented at drjasonpirozzolo.com and on the clinic's about page.

What review means on this site

Three concrete things. First, every clinical page carries a named reviewer and a last-reviewed date, and the date means what it says: the page was read, checked against current guidance, and corrected where needed. Second, the plain-English notes behind the Injury Wire come from a pre-written explainer file that is physician-reviewed before it ever renders; the wire cannot say anything a physician has not already approved. Third, nothing medical on this site is generated at runtime by any software, ever. What review does not mean: that reading this site substitutes for being examined. It does not, and every page says so.

How sources are chosen

Review is only as good as the material being checked against, so this site keeps a deliberate source hierarchy. Position statements and clinical practice guidelines come first: the National Athletic Trainers' Association on heat illness, the JOSPT guidelines on ankle, knee, and elbow injuries, the American College of Physicians on low back pain, the 2016 British Journal of Sports Medicine consensus on return to sport. Patient-facing condition references come from AAOS OrthoInfo and the physician-reviewed library at nonsurgicalorthopedics.com. Local facts, race dates, season windows, court locations, are verified against primary sources at publication or removed. Every clinical page lists its sources at the bottom, with working links, so nothing here asks to be taken on faith.

Corrections follow the same discipline. When a reader flags an error through the contact route, the claim gets re-checked against the source hierarchy, the page gets fixed or the claim gets cut, and the review date updates. A medical education site earns trust by being correctable in public, not by pretending it never needs to be.

Practice context

Physicians at Key West Concierge Orthopedics evaluate and treat bone, joint, muscle, and sports injuries without surgery whenever possible, and refer surgical cases promptly when the injury calls for it. The practice is at Suite 108, 1111 12th Street, Key West, FL 33040, reachable at (305) 707-8484. The sports medicine overview on this site explains what that discipline covers and how an evaluation works, including the visiting athlete timeline. Same-day or next-day appointments may be available. Availability changes, please call ahead to confirm.

Why a local reviewer matters

Generic injury content is written for a generic climate and a generic patient. The guidance here is calibrated to a place where the heat index runs the training calendar, boat decks supply the knee injuries, and half the injured population is flying home on Sunday. A reviewer who practices in that reality catches the advice that would be fine in Ohio and wrong in the Lower Keys. That local calibration, checked by a physician who lives it, is the entire editorial premise of this site, and it is why unverifiable local facts get cut rather than kept. The rule runs the other direction too: where Keys-specific advice would not hold elsewhere, the pages say so plainly instead of dressing local context up as universal truth.

Where else to verify

The professional record lives at drjasonpirozzolo.com and jasonpirozzolo.com; the practice profile lives on the clinic about page. Certification status for any physician is verifiable through the certifying boards.

Sources

• Physician background and credential statement: drjasonpirozzolo.com
• Practice profile: keywestortho.com/about-us