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Dr. Abbate Physical Therapy

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Dr. Abbate Physical Therapy

Our vision is to create generations of athletes -- to keep them healthy & injury-free so they can enjoy a lifetime of sport.

If you’re an athlete and you’re sick and tired of taking taking off from training or missing out on competitions, this is where you need to come to recover from sports related injuries.

12/15/2025

Incorporating explosive movement into your program will help your performance remain crisp and clean- nice lines and effortless movement
Add these banded kicks to your next leg day.

These exercises are not done to fatigue or exhaustion. You want to keep a nice crisp, clean kick each rep and set.

12/11/2025

The human body is phenomenally resilient.

Folks can recover from seemingly impossible odds. Spine fractures. TBI. Waves of pain wracking the body.

On top of the pain, poor professional advice can plant the seed of doubt and fragility.

“You’ll never be able to walk, run, jump after this injury”

In defiance to this:

“If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’”
-Rudyard Kipling

12/08/2025

☠️Neck strength training

In wrestling we used to do tons of bridges. Laying on our back and bridging up onto our skulls
Prob not the best for neck health. Or folks with neurological compromise
Try these exercises instead. They produce force perpendicular to the neck, not in an axial (compressive) direction
If you’re new, try sitting on the floor first with the head supported before going into a full bridge
These help build strength and endurance for partner lifts and are especially helpful for partner lifts for performing artists

12/05/2025

3 progressions for developing hip flexor strength
Band assist, body weight, external weight
If you’re kicking or keeping someone in your guard, these hip flexor exercises are phenomenal for building strength, endurance & overall athleticism
Often overlooked because it requires some unconventional workouts
Add these to your next leg day 🦵

12/01/2025

💥 NEW RESEARCH ALERT 💥

Adding a primary-contact physiotherapist to the Emergency Department team doesn’t just help patients feel & move better… it SAVES MONEY and improves quality of life!

A 2025 Canadian randomized trial (JOSPT) followed patients with musculoskeletal injuries for 3 months and found:

✅ PT + Emergency Physician care =
• +0.013 more QALYs (better health-related quality of life)
• ~$335 LESS per patient for the public healthcare system
• ~$410 LESS when including patient & family costs

In other words → the PT+EP model is DOMINANT: better outcomes + lower costs from both taxpayer and societal perspectives.

Time to bring physios into the ED as standard practice? We think YES. 🙌

11/24/2025

Lifting variables

🔀 Programming variables can help athletes push past sticking points, develop specific attributes specific to their sport, and alleviate boredom

5️⃣ Here are 5 ways you can make small adjustments to get more out of your workout

1. X:Y:Z - these refer to the time (in seconds) in each of the 3 phases of muscle contraction- concentric:isometric:eccentric; concentric refers to the muscle shortening to produce work, isometric refers to work under tension with no movement and eccentric refers to the muscle lengthening to produce work; you can program shorter concentrics, longer isometrics or super slow eccentrics to manipulate time under tension

2. Plyometrics - the muscle produces the most amount of force in the least amount of time; think “throwing” as hard as you can

3. Eccentrics - using both limbs to move the weight and unilaterally lowering the weight; hypothetically you can load 250% more weight with the eccentric portion (using a partner assist is another strategy)

4. Isometric - holding the joint in a certain position for a specified amount of time; allows for prolonged time under tension, facilitating specific adaptations for muscles and ligaments

5. Unilateral - isolating a single limb can challenge balance and muscle recruitment patterns

11/10/2025

🚨 96% of pain-free athlete shoulders show RC damage on MRI.

New 2025 review (53 studies) proves: tears are normal in high-load sports.

Stop letting scans bench your athletes.

Pain + function = what matters.
Swipe for the data →

11/06/2025

Came down with some knee pain after training on Tuesday. No specific incident, didn’t feel anything funny happen. Finished practice and the pain and blocking came later in the day. No swelling or instability.
Tried a few things the next day without much success- mobilizations with movement (MWM), long axis distraction (LAD), a few capsule stretches. All to no avail
Part 2 coming soon… did I figure out the recipe?!

10/29/2025

🦶Toe injuries in dance
🕺

In my 9+ years working with performers, these toe injuries are the most frustrating to treat
They are often due to overtraining (too early, too soon) in releve or wearing heels
The forefoot is placed under a good deal of stress (weight bearing) with jumps and repeated turns, disrupting the bones, tendons, ligaments or cartilage on the bottom of the joint
➡️ A period of off loading the joint (non-weightbearing to modified weight bearing), avoiding use of heels (even low heels) and restrictions with jumping, pivoting & turns is extremely important in the first phase of recovery
➡️ A progressive return to rehearsing, with gradual ‘stress testing’ of symptom-provoking activity (starting off with lower intensity activity like turns) and wearing of heels
✅ successful return to sports includes mobility exercises, foot-specific strength training
✅Return to rehearsals may take anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months depending on the structures involved and the complexity of the injury

10/08/2025

💤Sleep 7-9 hours every night. Nap when you can.

10/07/2025

Coogan SM. Upper Body Strength Endurance & Power. 2021

09/19/2025

Not PT related, but I had an interesting conversation with a patient at Royal Caribbean today about a lady curing her lymes disease after being stung a bunch
Nature is pretty cool if you ask me

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Miami, FL

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 4pm
Tuesday	8am - 10am
Wednesday	8am - 4pm
Thursday	8am - 10am
Friday	8am - 4pm
Saturday	8am - 11am

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+17864753094

Website

https://drabbate.com/

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