About PickleInjury
PickleInjury is physician-reviewed pickleball injury education: what the common injuries are, how recovery honestly goes, and how to come back in stages instead of by guesswork, plus CourtReady, the personalized return-to-play plan product built on the same review loop. It exists for the players the emergency data describes, the ones who count days until the next open play and want straight answers about the sore parts.
Two kinds of pages live here. The educational library, injuries, return-to-play stages, prevention, and the statistics page, is free and stays free. CourtReady, the plan product, is the part that will eventually cost money, and the line between the two is marked plainly wherever it appears.
Provenance, stated plainly: this site is built by the team around the non-surgical orthopedics practice at Key West Concierge Orthopedics, which is why a working sports medicine physician reviews the pages and why the referral pointers on injury pages lead where they lead. That relationship is disclosed here once and visible everywhere, rather than hidden and discoverable.
What this site is not, for the avoidance of doubt: it is not a clinic website, it books no appointments, it hosts no forum, and it will never diagnose you through a quiz. The tools give educational first reads; humans with examination rooms do the rest.
Who writes and reviews it
The pages are drafted editorially and every clinical page is reviewed by one named human: Jason Pirozzolo, DO, dually board certified in sports medicine and family medicine. There is no invented staff page and no stock-photo team, because one real reviewing physician beats six imaginary ones. The full picture of how review works lives on the physician page.
Review is not a rubber stamp at the end. Drafts change in review, timelines get widened, claims get cut, red flags get added, and each clinical page shows its last-reviewed date near the top so you can see when a human last checked it against the evidence.
Our rules
Every statistic on this site carries a citation to its primary source, and a number that cannot be verified gets cut rather than approximated. Timelines are ranges because bodies are ranges. No medical content here is sponsored, and nothing on this site is diagnosis; the medical disclaimer says that formally, and the pages try to say it usefully.
How the site is funded
Plainly: no ads, no affiliate links, no sponsored posts, and no gear commissions, which is why the shoe and eyewear guides can recommend features instead of brands. The plan is for CourtReady, the paid product, to fund the free library. Until it opens, the site is an investment by the clinical team behind it, and if that model ever changes, this page will say so before anything else does.
Corrections
Found an error, a stale citation, or a claim that reads stronger than its source? Report it through the contact form with the topic set to content correction, and name the page. The more specific the report, the faster the fix: the sentence in question and, if you have one, the source that contradicts it.
What happens next, in order: the report gets checked against the primary sources, not against whoever argued loudest. If the page is wrong, it changes, and its last-reviewed date changes with it. Material corrections, the kind that change what a reader should do, get noted on the page itself rather than silently patched. Being correctable on purpose is the policy, and this section is anchor-linkable precisely so the footer can hold us to it.
Why only pickleball
Focus is the feature. A site covering every sport treats pickleball as tennis with a smaller court, and the injuries disagree: the kitchen lunge, the backpedal problem, and the sport's age curve produce patterns that deserve their own pages. Covering one sport deeply also keeps the review honest, because the reviewing physician actually treats these exact injuries in these exact players.
Reach us
The contact page covers corrections, club and league inquiries, and press. One standing rule applies everywhere: please do not send personal medical details through any form on this site. If you are injured, a phone call to a physician beats a web form every time.