Jordan D. Metzl, MD

Dr. Metzl has been with me through my long battle with Plantar Faciitis. As an avid runner and hopeful Iron Woman, I developed plantar after ignoring pain that developed over a period of time.
I went to see Dr. Metzl in agony and he was extremely positive and very calm. His personal knowledge about sports is the reason why I chose Dr. Metzl. He’s not just a sports doctor but also competes himself so the advise and medicine that he prescribes, he’s personally experienced.
After my initial visit with Dr. Metzl he continued to follow up to make sure I was okay. After not getting better, he gave me a cortisone injection in my heel to help with the pain I felt ²⁴⁄₇. As as athlete my entire life, I’ve never had a cortisone injection but Dr. Metzl made me feel 100% comfortable with it.
The last time I saw him about a month ago, I was still working through my exercises and strengthening my heel. Yesterday, I ran 2 miles (at a slow 10.15 pace) but it felt amazing. Dr. Metzl told me to listen to my body and when the time was right I’d be able to try running again.
I would recommend him to anyone who wants a Doctor that is personally athletically experienced, really cares about his patients, and works within a patient’s comfort zone while still giving them direction and advice.
Also his IronStrength events in NYC are awesome and I totally recommend checking those out!

Dr. Metzl is The Man. He’s extremely personable, takes his time with his patients, and he really knows what the hell he’s talking about. He’s nationally recognized for his work and is known as one of the best orthos in NYC! He is an avid fan of physical fitness and gives his all to the community. Go Dr. Metzl!

Dr. Metzl is hands down, no question one of the best doctors in New York City! (This comes from a born and raised New Yorker). I have been seeing him for many, many years and he has helped me seamlessly through every injury I have had. He has always spent ample time with me explaining what is going on in my body and how to fix AND prevent it from happening in the future. He is a kind, knowledgeable person and doctor and I am grateful for all he has done for me to allow me to have been able to play ice hockey for 12 years. His guidance and advice comes from an extremely informed foundation.

I had a wonderful experience with Dr. Metzl. I saw him in no time, and he cut right to the chase with my problem. I think that it is important to remember that doctors are being overwhelmed, as our medical system has been deteriorating for at least three decades. The rising costs and crowded waiting rooms are signs of that. I also know that often it is the people with complaints that write reviews. I urge any one in need of Dr. Metzl’s exceptional skills and compassion to try him.

Dr. Metzl was the reason I was able to play D1 college football and get me back on the field. His knowledge of functional movement for athletes is world class.

I have been seeing Dr. Metzl since I was 12 years old and broke my wrist. He diagnosed my ACL and Lateral Meniscus tear when I was 17, and the need for partial Meniscectomy when I was 20.
Best thing about Dr. Metzl is his end goal is to always get the athlete returning to full activity ASAP. Many doctors don’t understand this nor care about their patients passion for their chosen sports but Jordan does.
He has treated many of my family members for various broken bones, sprains, what have you and we feel very fondly about him.
As an adult, he has been helping me stay healthy and pain free as a competitive weightlifter and crossfitter and I always enjoy paying him a visit (even if it’s under physically painful circumstances).
Awesome doctor and stellar dude.
*Only bad thing about this office: killer wait times which can be tough for a fidgety athlete like myself, but always worth it once you’re in there*

do not waste your time going to see this pompous arrogant dr. i waited for him for half hour and asked the receptionist how much longer and she told me i was next to go into a room. 5 minutes later i did go into a room. 15 minutes later i again asked how much longer since i was on time for him and rushed over there. he came out and said don’t worry i’ll be with you in 5 minutes and to smile. it is now 1 hr and i walked out of the room saying this is totally unacceptable and my time is just as valuable as his. and then i noticed he was seeing a patient that went in after i did. hmmm. how did that happen. he came out and apologized and when i said unacceptable he had the gall to say to me“well maybe we shouldn’t see each other” and i replied you are absolutely right. he then tried to get me to go into a room to see him and i stormed out of there. no one deserves to be treated like this and especially in a service industry. DO NOT GO TO THIS DOCTOR!!! there are too many other better ones to go to. Dr Arrogant Metzl

Do not see Dr. Metzl. He does not take the time to sit down and really figure out what is wrong or how you are feeling. In fact, he doesn’t really listen to you. He is too rushed and way overbooked. He is one of the worst doctors I’ve ever been to in my entire life.
I went to see him because I was experiencing knee pain while training for a marathon. He told me that it was an IT band problem and that with some stretching, foam rolling and squats I would be fine in several weeks, a month tops. He also told me to buy his book. Ugh. I ate it up and did what he said.
I did the exercises religiously but the pain did not get any better. For my second visit, after waiting TWO hours to see him, his assistant said he had ordered an x-​ray for me. Without questioning, I went and got the x-​ray taken in the lab next door. When I finally got into the room to see him, he did not mention the x-​ray. He told me that I had a different ailment (patelo femoral pain syndrome) and that if I kept strengthening and stretching, it would get better. I mentioned the x-​ray to him and he said oh, they did that? He looked surprised. He looked at it (I think to make it look like it wasn’t a total mistake) and said «yup, you’re fine.» He confirmed there was no irregular bone growth. Why he was checking for irregular bone growth without my consent is beyond me — it does not sound like a common condition or a priority in treating knee pain.
I was still feeling pain a month later, despite doing the exercises and stretching daily. I went to see him a third time (silly me, I should’ve gone elsewhere at this point). He said with a cortisone shot, all should feel better. So he gave me one. It did not change a thing, and my knee still hurt.
I finally came to my senses and went to another doctor for a second opinion. It turns out I pronate when I run and the recurring pain is my knee cap pushing in the wrong direction; it was wearing away my cartilage. Luckily the knee cartilage regenerates and all is well with orthotics, which would’ve helped me escape months of pain if diagnosed the first time around. I missed the marathon I trained months for thanks to this doctor.
Do not see Dr. Metzl. It is a waste of time and money.

Went to go see Dr. Metzl after I displaced 4 ribs (confirmed by another doctor and the fact that I went through all for replacements). He walks in, asks why I’m there. I tell him because I displaced 4 ribs and explained how. He promptly responds with ‘no you didn’t.’ It would be one thing if he looked at my x-​rays or even did an exam of my ribs or even said something like ‘well maybe it’s something else’. But no, he just sat that, cut me off and said ‘no you didn’t’. He proceed to say ‘you’re coughing like an animal’ and did nothing else.

I’ve known Dr. Metzl for several years and he has helped me tremendously through many sports injuries. He is an athlete and knows that we athletes do NOT like to sit on the sidelines. His approach to injuries and treatment is unique, and perhaps that is why some people don’t like it — he wants patients to be active in their healing and recovery efforts. Just like getting in shape and increasing fitness require hard work and discipline, so does treating injuries. I have seen other doctors who are very quick to medicate, and/​or diagnose injuries as overuse and prescribe 4 – 6 weeks of rest. I’m sorry but unless something is torn or severed, I have a hard time sitting on my butt for weeks on end and don’t like the idea of masking the pain with medications. Dr. Metzl typically prescribes specific exercises that will not only help to alleviate the pain or issue, but will actually strengthen your entire body, making you far less prone to getting further injuries. The bottom line is that we all need to be more aware of our bodies and listen to what our bodies tell us. We can only really heal and get stronger if we tune into our bodies. Dr. Metzl gives patients the keys needed to better understand our bodies and how they work, so that if and when we do get hit with an injury, we have the tools to get healing and get back to 100%.

An hour in the waiting room and counting…
Don’t waste your day coming here. Constantly overbooked.

Yes, I agree with everyone that the wait time is obnoxious. I waited a minimum of an hour to and hour and a half to see him on three different occasions. If you have back issues this is not the guy to go to. I never felt like he really understood my issues. He had few to no solutions for me and didn’t seem willing to point me in another direction. He told me «The good Lord made you pretty and smart and just gave you a bad back». and concluded with «it could be worse». Not helpful and I wasted two months of treatment and several days of work.

First off, I absolutely agree with the other reviews about the wait. It is completely insane. Again, if you have a real job, this is even more not the place for you. I got to every appointment early and waited over an hour every single time. Then the nurse would bring me to a room and I would wait another 20 minutes to see the doctor.
My first appointment I went in due to severe pain in my knee. Dr Metzl talked to me for a few minutes. Pushed my knee up and down a few times and said I just needed to buy a new foam roller, read his book and do the exercises and I was guaranteed to be better and to come back in a month.
The pain increased after following his direction and I was back in 2 weeks. I got an x ray that he said showed swelling so I then got an MRI. Mind you this is equalling 3 trips that could have been 1.
After my MRI I came back and Dr Metzl pulled it up, looked at it for approximately 20 seconds and told me nothing at all was wrong and that he had no clue why my pain continued to increase. I left frustrated and confused as to why this big shot doctor could give me no answer but to continue stretching.
After talking to a few people I was advised to ask for my MRI and go to another doctor. I called and requested the film and was told they could send me the MRI report from the radiologist. The MRI report stated there was fluid, scarring and impingement in my knee. After consulting with another doctor there is MUCH you can do to relieve the pain and prevent further injury. Now I will be paying to go see another doctor to take care of this.
Altogether I was more than upset with my time seeing Dr Metzl. I wasted a ton of time and money and received zero answer and was withheld information on my MRI. PLEASE do not go see this doctor. Read reviews on Unilocal first and ask around so you don’t make the same mistake I did.

My first appointment with Dr. Metzl was a huge relief because his prescription of fixing my achilles tendonitis was to treat it via exercising vs. sitting on my behind. As an active person this was AMAZING news. Fast forward 1.5 months later and I was back in the office with severe pain in my heel (indicative of plantar fasciitis) and Dr. Metzl wouldn’t give me the time of day. He kept trying to walk out the door and kept repeating that «it would be a bumpy road to recovery» without giving me any answers as to what was causing my pain. I explicitly asked him if the pain could be plantar fasciitis since the pain had nothing to do with my achilles heel and tendon. He said no and then ceased to respond to future emails of mine complaining of my pain. He never x-​rayed me or even took an MRI. Fast forward two months, I am bedridden and spending $ 70 on cabs to/​from work a day because I can hardly walk with severe plantar fasciitis! Not only did he not diagnose me, his «famous» iron strength workout was the worst possible thing I could’ve been doing for my heel because of all of the jumping.
To summarize: he blew me off, didn’t give me the time of day, failed to properly diagnose me, and his recovery plan (his published workout) made my condition much much worse. Don’t go to him! All he cares about is selling his book and «brand».

I have a 5 year old back injury that has been causing me chronic pain. After seeing a series of chiropractors and masseuses, a family friend convinced me to make the drive from NJ into the Hospital for Special Surgery to see a specialist. I was given Dr. Metzl’s name as a referral through the Hospital for Special Surgery. Grand total, I saw him twice:
Trip #1:
I took a day off of work to make the drive into the city and see him. I needed x-​rays and his office was incredibly busy. I was already alerted to a long wait time through other online reviews so I excused the 40 minutes I waited past my appointment time to get x-​rays. However, ater I returned, I was quickly shuffled into an examination room as the nurses explained to me that «they were waiting for me to get back so Dr. Metzl could see me before he went on a quick break». I don’t know what they were talking about because I sat there for another half hour, staring at my x-​rays and panicking because it was the first time I had ever seen the scoliosis curve in my back. The nurse who put the x-​rays up to begin with didn’t ease my mind either– she stood there staring at them a little too long, asked me where my injury was, then went «hmm…» and walked out.
When Dr. Metzl finally came in, he asked me whee the injury was and what my symptoms were. Then VISUALLY checked my range of motion, and announced that he thinks it’s all muscular and that a lot of PT should do the trick. The only time he touched my back was to ask me if he had the correct injured area in mind.
Trip #2:
Post– 8 weeks of PT I was feeling slightly better, but a 5 year injury doesn’t go away without a fight. I took another day off of work for this visit and was furious when I was still in the (practically EMPTY this time) waiting room at 3:30 for my 2:30 appointment. I spoke to the receptionist and explained that I was angry and was tempted to walk out even though that would confirm I totally wasted a personal day. He was very nice and went back to tell the nurses. But then the nurses scrambled around cleaning out an examination room for me, plopped a robe on the table for me to change into, and left. I sat there, cold and ironically in a lot of pain from lack of back support, for 15 minutes.
Here’s the kicker– Dr. Metzl had a high school sophmore shadowing him that day. He sent this high school girl, unattended, into my examination room to kill time with me. The poor girl was sweet as can be, but it is not her job to distract his patients. She sat there with me for 20 minutes, pretending to take notes and make small talk with me about her upcoming college applications.
By the time he came in, the sight of him made me silent with fuming anger. I had nothing to say to him but insults, and yet didn’t want to reem him out in front of an innocent high school student who wanted to be a doctor. Again, he asked me how I felt, visually checked my range of motion and said I need more PT — an exam that took MAYBE 2 minutes. I have no idea why the nurses put me or anyone in a robe because he clearly doesn’t like to examine anything up close. I had nothing to say, I was flabberghasted he didn’t respond to my anger, appologise for the wait, or respond at all when I told him I was in pain from waiting for him on an exam table for a half hour with no back support.
I will never see him again. I will never recommend him to anyone. No doctor is good enough to go through this and no doctor should run their practice thinking that their time is more valuable than the time of their patients.

Dr. Metzl is awesome. I am a physician/​athlete and if I have an injury or joint/​soft tissue issue this is where I go when competing in NYC. A Sports Medicine doc, he is a doctor to the stars… and that star is you! He has been on Good Morning America so he is a bit of a celeb… LoL… but don’t let that mislead you… Yes, as some of the reviews state, the wait can sometimes be long… but wait a minute. I am a physician surgeon too so I completely understand the delays that can occur seeing patients. Don’t loose sight of the present… be patient and meditate, remember it is worth the wait? Like any good doctor he listens and he takes the time to address your concern… ever think that perhaps it is YOU who is delaying the next patient. This is the nature of being a highly sought after doctor. Highly recommended :-)

Dr. Metzl was recommended to me by a colleague when I needed a second opinion regarding an ankle injury.
I waited 70 min outside the reception and when I was called in, another 35min in the examination room. There was no apology for the +100 min wait, even thou I have a busy schedule as well.
The doctor examined the ankle and came to a conclusion that there is nothing wrong with it. I replied that there definitely is something wrong with it because the pain is ever present in every day life. That caught his attention. He then said that the ankle is loose.
He did not compare the ankle to the other ankle (as a baseline) so how does he know whether the looseness of the ankle is due to an injury or something natural.
Hopefully I just had a bad experience and he can find a solution to the problem. In that case, this rating will go up from 2 to 5 stars.

PEOPLE WHO WORK A REAL JOB BEWARE!!! As thorough a doctor he is, please keep in mind that the wait times at this place are absurd. The office books appointments at 8am, and the doctor doesn’t even get in until 830, which sends delays all the up the chain. If you book an early appointment thinking you can squeeze it in before work, think again. I had an 815 apt, and was seen finally at 920 for 5 minutes.
Medical review: he is a solid doctor who knows his stuff, and for a serious injury may be worth the wait. He did diagnose my problem correctly. However, he clearly doesn’t value the patients as he overbooks his schedule trying to make the extra buck.
Wait times shouldn’t be an hour!!! This isn’t the ER! I will probably never return unless I am retired or unemployed. No professional courtesy to the people with normal jobs.

Can’t rate him because I never got to see him… I had an appt & was hoping to get there early as a new patient to fillout forms but after waiting 25 min for a bus crosstown I called to say I would be a little late… they were very appreciative of the call… I showed up exactly 5min after my scheduled appt & promptly filled out all forms… then I proceeded to wait & wait… a young man came in after me for an appt 15 min after my scheduled appt… he waited 10 min & was called in… when I questioned the receptionist as to why he was seeing dr. Metzle before me he became flustered and proceeded to tell me that there are other drs here & it shouldn’t be much longer (45 at this time) when I pressed that I heard he was seeing dr metzle and once again asked why was this man put in before me, he told me he would find out but he left his post and I never saw him again. in the interium 3 other patients came in behind me all for dr metzle and I thought to myself as a new patient with a longtime injury which I have seen 2 others Drs for and with the NYC ½ marathon a week away, I wondered how much time could he spend with me???
I waited 1 full hour before I went to the now new receptionist and told her I had to get back to work… she didn’t even say hold on let me see what’s going on or nothing, she just got up and walked away from me to talk to the girls in the back… the entire experience left me with a sense that if I’m treated this way as a possible new patient what can I expect once I commit to treatment here…
Needless to say I was very disappointed with the entire process and was hoping he would be the answer to my ongoing issue…
I wold appreciate any recommendations out there… especially in Nassau County… thanks!

I had a really awful experience with Dr. Metzl. After waiting for an hour past my appointment time to see him, he spent maybe 5 minutes with me, gave a half-​assed exam, and terrible advice for how to treat my muscle injury.
I came in with muscle pain following a particular workout, and he squeezed the muscle once, then asked me to stand on my toes and diagnosed me with «not being strong enough,» and «in terrible shape.» I’d like to point out that I ran division 1 track for 4 years and only finished this recently, so truth be told I think I’m at least in ok shape. He then said I would be cured BUYING his book and strength classes!
Dr Metzl completed my visit by pointing to another woman in the office and told me «I should look like that.» Ass.