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Our Team

Get to Know Our Sports Medicine Experts

Our team of experienced sports medicine specialists combine their expertise, passion, and dedication to deliver exceptional care tailored to your unique needs, helping you achieve remarkable results and regain your active lifestyle. Get to know our sports medicine experts by clicking on their photos below.
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Andrew Dombek

Owner and Founder

Lucas Ortiz

PT Aide

Get to Know Our Support Staff

Our dedicated support staff plays a crucial role in ensuring a seamless and comfortable experience throughout your journey. Their professionalism, kindness, and commitment to your well-being make all the difference. Get to know our support staff by clicking on their photos below.
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Melissa Vincent

Billing Manager & Office Manager

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Natasha Centeno

Receptionist

Sophia Griffin

Operations Manager

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Andrew Dombek, PT, MSPT, CMTPT, CGFI

Owner and Founder

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
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

Lucas Ortiz

PT Aide

Lucas’ bio is coming soon!

Melissa Vincent

Melissa was born in Charleston, SC and reared in and out of the United States as a “military brat”. Melissa is the proud mother of eight year old twins, Ariana and Amari. Melissa has a Bachelor’s Degree in Education and History from Fayetteville State University and taught in the field from 2001-2004. During her marriage she was relocated often through the Army and decided to use her skills as an educator in the medical field. While residing in Houston, TX she graduated from National Institute of Technology with a certification in Medical Billing and Coding. In 2004 she interned at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor University Hospital. Melissa has been in the medical field for over 16 years and has worked in various fields such as Psychiatric /Psychology; Urogynecology, Cariology and now Physical Therapy.
Qualifications: Medical Billing and Coding
Born: Charleston, SC
Lived: Charleston, SC; Augusta, GA, Houston, TX; Ft. Bragg, NC; Frankfurt, Germany, all over Texas and now Centreville, VA
Favorites
Place: Disney World
Restaurant: Pappadeaux’s
Food: Southern, German and Mexican food
Vacation: Would love to visit Maui and the Grand Canyon
TV Show: Snapped!!! Investigation Discovery Channel
Music: I love Religious and R&B music
Email: mvincent@aidppt.com

Natasha Centeno

Receptionist

Natasha was born in Newark, NJ to a military family who moved around at various points in her childhood, eventually landing her in Virginia where she finished her schooling at Great Bridge High School in Chesapeake, VA. She attended Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA for 4 years and graduated with a degree in Biology in 2017. She has always been interested in biology and health sciences and finds fulfillment in helping the clinic and its patients.
Born: Newark, NJ
Now lives: Newark, NJ; San Diego, CA; Kingsland, GA; Durham, NH; Chesapeake, VA; Fairfax, VA; Ashburn VA
Favorites
Place: Puerto Rico
Restaurant: Rooster & Owl
Food: seafood, fried rice
Vacation: the beach!
City: Washington DC; San Juan, PR
TV show: What We Do in the Shadows; Taskmaster
Film: Thor: Ragnarok; Bullet Train
Music: EDM
Singer/Group: Madeon; Jenevieve; Doja Cat
Celebrity: Eugene Lee Yang
Hobbies: running, drawing, admiring art, playing video games, hangouts with friends and family, watching movies and documentaries, relaxing with my pet rabbit

Sophia Griffin

Operations Manager

Sophia Victoria is a dedicated Operations Manager with over 10 years of experience in healthcare administration and leadership. Known for her strong organizational skills, process improvement strategies, and team-focused leadership style, she is passionate about creating efficient operations and positive workplace environments. Sophia brings a results-driven approach to leadership while remaining committed to professionalism, growth, and operational excellence.