Andrew has been living and working in Loudoun County since 2004. He previously worked at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland and Binh Tran’s Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine in Washington, DC. Having had enough of the city, he decided to take his brand of physical therapy out to the suburbs of Virginia where he opened his first PT clinic, Arthritis and Sports Physical Therapy (in Sterling). After two years there he decided it was time to go out on his own in 2006 and set up AID Performance Physical Therapy.
Andrew spends a vast amount of his time ensuring your treatment plans keep pace with the rapid advancements that make physical therapy so effective and such a ‘go-to’ profession for people aged 35-64.
Andrew previously had his own podcast titled The Get Back With Dombek Podcast, which brings his followers insight, inspiration, expertise, and education from the leading sports medicine experts, coaches, trainers, the country’s’ most talented athletes, and beyond. These days he spends his time making instructional and informational videos as well as hosting in person clinic on the same topics and subjects he covered in his podcast. Check out his various social media channels like @drdink_PT on TikTok.
Andrew famously worked with many of Washington DC’s finest from the everyman up to the titans of industry and politics. Also while at PTSM he had the opportunity to work exclusively with some of the finest athletes and performers who were in town performing at Kennedy Center.
Andrew enjoys working with athletes of all ages, currently he is helping out his daughter’s travel soccer club The St. James FC Virginia of the Girls Academy League and previously volunteered his services to a few of the high schools in Loudoun County.
He does not limit himself to just his daughter and her club/teammates, he proudly works with many of the top athletes from the surrounding Ashburn high schools like Briar Woods, Broad Run, Rockridge, Riverside, Loudoun County, Loudoun Valley, Woodgrove, Potomac Falls, PVI, John Champe, Freedom, Independence, and Stone Bridge. He is a specialist in treating the lower back, hip, knee, ankle and shoulder. injuries and dysfunction.
Andrew is excellent at empathizing with his clients as he has lived through a myriad of injuries in his life including breaking his ankle, wrist and thumb, spraining his ankles, wrists and shoulders, straining his lower back, neck, quads and hamstrings, pulled and torn muscles, as well as undergoing lower back surgery at 17 (ending his football playing career) and knee surgery to repair a torn meniscus. Having been through all of these injuries throughout out his life,
Andrew is a rare expert in understanding the psyche of returning to your sport after injury. Helping people stay active and giving back to his community are his passions. These characteristics have helped Andrew become an expert Physical Therapist and his clinic become the premier clinic for runners in Northern Virginia.
Andrew is a very proud Dad of a beautiful girl named Eden, and when he’s not at work, or spending time with his daughter, you can likely find him playing pickleball, in the gym, on his bike, at the lake fishing, boating or SUP, golfing, or out on the streets running. In the past Andrew coached his daughter’s basketball and recreational soccer teams.
Fact: Ask Andrew about how he helped a young baseball Pitcher become the first major league pitcher to ever come back from a medial flexor tendon (the muscles on the inside of his right elbow) re-attachment procedure.
Qualifications: PT, MSPT, CMTPT
Born: Manhassett, NY
Raised: Gaithersburg and Germantown, MD
Now lives: Ashburn, VA
Favorites
Place: Charleston, SC
Restaurant: Fahrenheit 132, DC Prime
Food: Seafood
Vacation: The Beach
City: Florence, Italy, and NYC
TV show: Ted Lasso
Film: Good Will Hunting, Shawshank Redemption, and Top Gun Maverick
Singer/Group: Zac Brown Band, Kane Brown
Celebrity: Ken Griffey Jr.
Book: How to win friends and influence people
Sports: Football
Team: Washington Football Team, Capitals, Nationals, Terps
Hobbies: Pickleball, Golf, Fishing, playing sports with his daughter, and Netflix.
