Pain & Injury Consultation

Much like professional team sports, we want athletes to have access to a suite of resources in coaching, performance rehab, nutrition, and sports psychology. This is the first major step toward that dream.

We know that even the most careful planning of training loads, athlete monitoring, and attention to technique can’t account for all the ways athletes can be sidelined by injures: small and large, chronic and acute.

That’s why we’re excited to be partnered with Katie Dabrowski, DPT to the team.

Katie is a physical therapist and strength coach whose expertise and passion is the barbell athlete. Her athletic background includes over 15 years of strength training and competing collegiately as an NCAA Division II rower. 

Katie earned her undergraduate degree in neuroscience at Nova Southeastern University and went on to obtain her Doctorate of Physical Therapy at the University of Miami. She is co-owner of Old Bull Athletics, a one-on-one, high-level hybrid physical therapy and training facility in Miami, FL. In addition to her Miami practice, Katie has developed extensive remote rehab, coaching, consulting services for powerlifters ranging from beginner to professional across the world. 

Her passion is providing a rehab experience entirely centered on the individual and their high-level goals - especially the powerlifting community, which is often underserved in rehab with cookie-cutter plans of care, providers who do not understand the demands of their sport, and poor communication with provider and coach. Her expertise lies in finding patterns of pain and injury in powerlifters and working directly with coaches to optimize programming to keep her athletes lifting and progressing through pain and injury.

In addition to her clinical work, Katie is also a neuroscience faculty member at Nova Southeastern University and is on the Advisory Board for the Society for NeuroSports, an organization of exercise science and neuroscience clinicians and researchers. Her background in neuroscience is deeply interwoven in her clinical practice, as she seeks to help her athletes understand the impact of the brain on pain, performance, and injury rehabilitation.

Athletes can book appointments directly with Katie to discuss injuries, limitations, programming plans, and any relevant tests. Existing patients can schedule follow-ups to make sure that small problems remain small and athletes experience the fastest and safest return-to-play possible. We’ll work to set small, attainable goals, assess progress back to 100%, all the while working as a team for you, the athlete.

All findings will be communicated both to you and to your coach in a collaborative manner, to ensure programming meets the needs of the athlete and that you can continue to make progress.

In short, knitting together performance rehab and expert coaching keeps the athlete progressing longer, experiencing fewer setbacks, and feeling supported at the times when their goals seem furthest from reach. We want athletes to continue thriving in sport and we’re excited to welcome Katie as a critical component of that plan.