Exclusive with Dr. David Chao, Former NFL Head Team Doctor , Orthopedist

First, tell us about your new site and work as an Orthopedist!

Well, my main work is still as an orthopedist – surgeries, etc.  But the new site is ProFootballDoc  run by the San Diego Tribune. I live in San Diego and was the team orthopedist for San Diego. They contacted me to work with them on the site – they wanted a more national offering. The site offers injury updates for fantasy football players and fans.

What brought you to this point and how did you get so much popularity on social media as an orthopedist!

Blame it on my wife – for all of this. When I stopped being the orthopedist for the Chargers after seventeen years, I was watching the football games and hearing the announcers talk about an ankle injury when I could see the player blew out his knee the play before. I was yelling at the announcers on the tv when my wife told me to tell it to someone who cares.

So, she later signed me up on Twitter – I didn’t know anything about it really -I’m not on any other social media. I played wth Twitter and it just grew organically (now to over 60,000 followers – @ProFootballDoc ). I made friends doing it in the media and enjoyed it. I can’t tell you now how many people tell me they follow me for football injury information but don’t want to tell their friends about me so they can win at fantasy football.