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Brian J. Krabak, MD, MBA

On staff since September 2007

Academic Title: Clinical Associate Professor, Departments of Rehabilitation and Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, UW

"As an athlete and physician, I appreciate the importance of preventing injury for athletes at all levels of competition. My focus is on listening to the athlete and working with them to develop an appropriate plan so that they may achieve their specific goal"

Dr. Krabak is a Sports Medicine specialist in the Departments of Rehabilitation, Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine. He focuses on the prevention/treatment of sports-related injuries and sports performance enhancement in youth and adult recreational to professional athletes. He obtained his undergraduate degree at Cornell University and earned his medical degree from the State University of New York-Buffalo. He completed an internship at the Johns Hopkins-Sinai Hospital Internal Medicine program and his PM&R residency at Tufts University where he was Chief Resident. Dr Krabak obtained specialty training in Sports Medicine at the Mayo Clinic and was a faculty member at Johns Hopkins prior to joining the University of Washington.

Dr Krabak has extensive sports medicine experience including: Olympic Games: 2010 Vancouver, 2004 Athens and 2002 Salt Lake Games Professional Sports: Baltimore Orioles, Hagerstown Suns (NY Mets) Collegiate Sports: University of Washington, Seattle University, Johns Hopkins University National Team Physician: USA Swimming Medical Director: RacingThePlanet 4 Deserts Ultramarathons, Baltimore Marathon, Med-City Marathon Physician: Seattle Marathon, Boston Marathon He has a particular interest in endurance athletes (swimmers, runners, triathletes, cyclists and adventure racers), concussions and baseball injuries. As a competitive athlete participating in multi-day adventure races, mountain bike races and Ironman triathlons, he understands the importance of balancing fitness and preventing injury. His research interests focus on the prevention and treatment of overuse injuries in runners, swimmers and ballet dancers. His current research includes assessing injuries in multi-day ultramarathon adventure athletes, predicting injuries in swimmers and functional assessment of ballet dancers in preventing injuries.

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Board Certification(s): Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Electrodiagnostic Medicine (Non-ABMS)
Sports Medicine
Medical/Professional School: SUNY School of Medicine - Buffalo, Buffalo
John Hopkins University Carey Business School, Columbia
Residency: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, New England Medical Center, Boston
Fellowship: Sports Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester

Awards and Honors

Award Name	Award Description	Awarded By	Award Date
Outstanding Resident Research Award	Putnam A, Krabak BJ, Bandolin S: Impact of Ankle Braces on Skill Performance in Soccer Players.	University of Washington	2011
Medical Staff Teamwork, Leadership and Caring Award		University of Washington Medical Center	2011
Best Doctor, Washington State		Washington Magazine	2010
Marquis - Whose who in America			2009
Best Doctors in America			2009
USA Swimming, High Performance Award-Sports Medicine and Science			2008
American Association of Physiatrists Education Research Fund Best Research Paper Award: Fish DE, Krabak BJ, Johnson-Greene DJ and deLateur BJ. Optimal Resistance Training: Comparison of the DeLorme			2004
American Medical Association / Glaxo-Wellcome Achievement and Leadership Award			1996

Publications

Comparison of Dry-Land Training Programs Between Age Groups of Swimmers
PM R , Jan. 29, 2013

Evaluation of the Shoulder
Shoulder Disorders: A Pocket Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment. , 2013: Nagler H and Singh R (Eds) Totawa,: Humana

Injury and Illnesses Prevention for Ultra-Marathoners Curr Sports Med Rep.
, 2013

Improving the doctor-dancer encounter: an examination of healthcare seeking behavior, wants, and needs among community non-patient dancers
Int Assoc Dance Med and Science Annual Meeting, Singapore , Oct. 2012

Impact of Ankle Bracing on Skill Performance in Recreational Soccer Players
PM R. , Aug. 2012: 4(8)574-9

Shoulder Injuries in the Skeletally Immature Baseball Pitcher and Recommendation for Prevention of Injury
PM R. , July 2012: 4(7)509-16

Paget-Schroetter Syndome in a Competitive Swimmer
American College of Sports Medicine , June 2012

Evaluation of Shoulder Injuries in the Youth Athlete
Pediatric Annals 2012 , June 1, 2012: 41(6)243-8

Association Between Hypermobility and Prior Injury in Collegiate Swimmers
Amer Med Soc Sports Medicine , April 2012

Prospective Cohort Study of Acute Kidney Injury in Multi-Day Ultramarathon Runners.
Academic Emergency Medicine , April 2012

Concussion and Head Injuries in Baseball Players.
Sports Medicine of Baseball , 2012: Dines, ElAttrache, Yocum, Alctchek, Andrews (Eds) Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott William & Wilkins359-371

Foot Problems and Care.
Wilderness Medicine, 6th edition , 2012: Auerbach PS (Ed) Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier,580-593

Barefoot Running: Point-Counterpoint
PMR , Dec. 2011: 3(12)1142-9

Chronic knee synovitis in an adolescent dancer.
PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation , 2010 Jun: 573-5

Shoulder and elbow injuries in the adolescent athlete.
Physical medicine and rehabilitation clinics of North America , 2008 May: 271-85, viii

Examination and treatment of pediatric injuries of the hip and pelvis.
Physical medicine and rehabilitation clinics of North America , 2008 May: 305-18, ix

Augmented exercise in the treatment of deconditioning from major burn injury.
Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation , 2007 Dec: S18-23

Chronic lateral knee pain in a cyclist: popliteal artery entrapment.
Clinical journal of sport medicine : official journal of the Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine , Sept. 2007: 401-3

Musculoskeletal education in physical medicine and rehabilitation residency programs: graduating resident perspective.
American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation / Association of Academic Physiatrists , 2007 Jun: 493-8

Musculoskeletal education in physical medicine and rehabilitation residency programs.
American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation / Association of Academic Physiatrists , 2004 Oct: 785-90

Optimal resistance training: comparison of DeLorme with Oxford techniques.
American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation / Association of Academic Physiatrists , 2003 Dec: 903-9

Practical nonoperative management of rotator cuff injuries.
Clinical journal of sport medicine : official journal of the Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine , 2003 Mar: 102-5

Presentations

Presentations Title	Event	Location	Date
Injuries in the Youth and Adult Throwing Athlete	AAPMR National Assembly	Atlanta GA	Nov. 2012
Correlation between static and dynamic core strength and rates of injury in collegiate dancers	Int Assoc Dance Med and Science Annual	Singapore	Oct. 2012
Improving the doctor-dancer encounter: an examination of healthcare seeking behavior, wants, and needs among community non-patient dancers	Int Assoc Dance Med and Science Annual Meeting	Singapore	Oct. 2012
Exercise Associated Collapse	AMSSM Comprehensive Sports Medicine Update and Board Review Course	Lake Tahoe, Nevada.	June 2012
Pediatric Musculoskeletal Injuries and Condition	AMSSM Comprehensive Sports Medicine Update and Board Review Course	Lake Tahoe, Nevada.	June 2012
Knee Injuries	AMSSM Comprehensive Sports Medicine Update and Board Review Course	Lake Tahoe, Nevada	June 2012
Elbow and Forearm Injuries and Condition	AMSSM Comprehensive Sports Medicine Update and Board Review Course	Lake Tahoe, Nevada	June 2012
Ultra-Marathon Medicine	Northwest Athletic Trainers Association Annual Meeting	Seattle WA	April 2012
UltraEvent: Medical Challenges and Observations	United States Olympic Marathon Trials Sports Medicine Symposium	Houston Texas	Jan. 2012

Research Funding

Grant Title	Grantor	Amount	Award Date
Hypermobility, Strength and Injury Rates in Collegiate Swimmers			2011
Validity and Reliability of an Upper Extremity Functional Screening Tool in Swimmers.	USA Swimming Sports Medicine and Science Committee		2011
Hypermobility, Strength and Injury Rates in Professional Ballet Dancers			2011
Dryland Training in Age-Group and Collegiate Swimmers			2011
Effects of Graduated Compression Stocking on Physiological and Sensation Responses during Sub-Maximal Running in Elite Collegiate Running Athletes		$45,000	2010
Hypermobility and Injury Rates in Collegiate Gymnastics.			2010
Impact of Ankle Braces on	Walter Stolov Fund	$2000	2010 - 2012
Endurance Adventure Race Study	RacingThePlanet, Abbot Laboratory, and Garmin	$40,000	2005
Musculoskeletal Knowledge and Perception of Education for Incoming and Graduating Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residents	Physiatric Association of Spine, Sports and Occupational Rehabilitation	$5000.00	Jan. 1, 2003

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University of Washington

UW Box 354740 - Bone and Joint Center
4245 Roosevelt Way NE

Seattle, WA 98105-4740

206-598-4288

Additional Offices

Seattle Children's

OA.9.120.1 - Orthopedics Administration
4800 Sand Point Way NE

Seattle, WA 98105

206-987-2109

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