Medical Advisory Board

Alan M. Lazar, MD, FACS, is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon with extensive experience spanning orthopedic surgery, sports medicine, arthroscopic and reconstructive procedures, and nonsurgical approaches to musculoskeletal injury and osteoarthritis.

Dr. Lazar earned his medical degree from New York Medical College and completed orthopedic surgery residency training through New York Medical College. He is certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery.

Throughout his career, Dr. Lazar has maintained a particular interest in alternatives and adjuncts to conventional orthopedic surgery, including minimally invasive treatment, ultrasound-guided procedures, platelet-rich plasma and regenerative approaches to musculoskeletal conditions.

He is also the author of Beyond the Knife: Alternatives to Surgery, which explores nonsurgical and minimally invasive approaches to orthopedic care.

As a member of the Medical Advisory Board, Dr. Lazar contributes decades of orthopedic experience and perspective at the intersection of traditional orthopedic medicine, sports medicine, musculoskeletal health, and emerging regenerative technologies.

Jason Schuster, PT, DPT, MTC, IAMTC, IADN Cert., is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, educator, and founder of Intricate Art Spine & Body Solutions.

His clinical and educational work focuses on advanced manual therapy, dry needling, spinal and extremity manipulation, rehabilitation, neuromuscular function, pain, recovery, and continuing education for healthcare professionals.

Dr. Schuster earned his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree and pursued Manual Therapy Certification through the University of St. Augustine. His background also includes competitive NCAA Division I ice hockey, giving him a firsthand understanding of athletic performance, injury, rehabilitation, and return to competition.

Through Intricate Art, he has developed and taught advanced educational programs emphasizing anatomy, manual intervention, dry needling, manipulation, and the relationship between the nervous system, pain, and physical function.

As a member of the Medical Advisory Board, Dr. Schuster contributes a practitioner-focused perspective on rehabilitation, musculoskeletal health, neuromuscular function, physical performance, and the practical translation of emerging therapies into patient recovery.

Michael J. Paralovos, DC, is a chiropractor whose practice joins spinal and manual care with athletic performance, built on years working inside professional sport.

Dr. Paralovos completed his Doctor of Chiropractic prerequisites at Life University’s school of arts and sciences before entering its College of Chiropractic, graduating in 2006. He attended on an ice hockey scholarship and played on two national championship teams, in 2001 and 2002.

From 2013 to 2020 he served as team chiropractor for the Florida Everblades of the ECHL, across years the club was affiliated with the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Carolina Hurricanes, and the Nashville Predators. He established his practice, Total Health of Naples, in 2012, after working in large group practices on Florida’s east coast.

He is a distinguished fellow of Chiropractic Biophysics, a TPI certified golf fitness instructor through the Titleist Performance Institute, a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and a USA Hockey level 2 coach. He is pursuing a fellowship in functional neurology through the Carrick Institute and is board eligible for the diplomate in chiropractic neurology through the American Chiropractic Neurology Board.

As a member of the Medical Advisory Board, Dr. Paralovos contributes a chiropractic and performance perspective grounded in the professional locker room — spinal and manual care, conditioning, injury prevention, and what it actually takes to return a competitive athlete to play.

Christopher Pikosky, LMT, is a licensed massage therapist with more than twenty years of work alongside elite athletes across the NHL, NFL, professional tennis and golf, and Olympic competition.

From 2010 through 2014 he served on the full-time medical and training staff of the Los Angeles Kings as team massage therapist, working more than 370 NHL games across a period that included the organization’s 2012 and 2014 Stanley Cup championship seasons. He was named to the Team USA medical and training staff for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey, and was selected by the USTA to treat the American main-draw players at the 2014 US Open.

Earlier, he spent twelve seasons and more than 500 home games with the Florida Everblades of the ECHL, and was brought in by the Pittsburgh Steelers’ head athletic trainer to work with players through the week of Super Bowl XLIII. He has worked ATP and WTA tour events and treated Grand Slam champions from the US Open, Wimbledon, the Australian Open and Roland-Garros, and NFL and Olympic athletes at an elite performance camp run by a three-time Super Bowl–winning conditioning coach.

He founded Naples Medical Massage in 2014, continues to treat NHL all-stars at offseason skills camps, and has worked with Olympic figure skaters including pairs medalists from the 2022 Beijing Winter Games. The same protocols travel outside sport: principal dancers from American Ballet Theatre, Miami City Ballet and Hubbard Street Dance, musicians from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Naples Philharmonic, and Grammy-winning recording artists on tour have all been private clients — because, as he puts it, artists are athletes.

Underneath the professional sport is sixteen years and more than 20,000 hands-on hours in an outpatient physical therapy clinic, where he served as assistant director and functional rehabilitation technician treating orthopedic, neurological, sports, and age-related injury alongside physicians, physical and occupational therapists, strength coaches, and chiropractic physicians.

As a member of the Medical Advisory Board, Pikosky contributes what that combination produces: a recovery and manual-therapy perspective formed in the training room and disciplined in the clinic, with particular insight into how a new modality is actually received by the people who have to deliver it and the athletes who have to trust it.