From Beginners to Professionals

Kathryn began her experience as an endurance athlete as a child.  From childhood through high school, she swam competitively. She began running competitively in middle school, competed at the collegiate level and still enjoys the occasional road race.  Her triathlon career began after college and she continues to compete at the Sprint and Olympic distances.

As a Physical Therapist, she had the pleasure of working with Age-group athletes, Professional IronMan Triathletes and Professional Olympic length triathletes.  Because of her personal experiences, Kathryn is able to understand the demands, challenges and determination that is required to compete from a young age and into adulthood. She has taken extensive continued education to bolster her Orthopedic Clinical Specialist degree, ensuring that she is up to date on the latest theories, manual techniques and approaches to treating this unique population.  

Hear from our Athletes…

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Will Greig

 

Having been a division one runner in college and graduate school, as well as a professional triathlete, I am all too familiar with seeing physical therapists.  When I first saw Ryn, I immediately knew something was different.  While we certainly talked about the issue at hand, it felt like Ryn was listening and evaluating to figure out the root causes.  It felt like other PT's I saw in the past would occasionally consider what might be causing an issue but their focus was always on the immediate.  Ryn was focused not only on solving the issue at hand but doing so with a long view to address the underlying cause so I could avoid new problems.  In athletics of any kind, consistency is the most important part of improvement and staying healthy is at the core of maintaining consistency.
So often in medicine there is a dynamic that feels like the practitioner is listening long enough to validate what they think is happening so the process can continue.  With Ryn, it felt like she took the time and was listening intently to compile as much information as possible, asking questions, re-evaluating and considering new potentials to come to the best conclusion possible.  And yet, that conclusion was not set in stone and would evolve as we worked through the treatment process.  I believe that her ability to communicate and make me feel heard and understood was absolutely critical to addressing and fixing my issues. 
I would (and have) absolutely recommend Ryn to anyone in need of a physical therapist.  She is always curious and works without ego which encourages a collaborative environment.  I only wish I was still close enough to continue to work with her!  Thanks Ryn!
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Chris Leiferman

As a professional triathlete, maintaining peak performance and staying healthy is crucial to my success. Working with Ryn has been a game-changer in keeping me not just 'up and running' but consistently improving. Ryn has a unique ability to address both immediate concerns and long-term goals. Whether it's helping me recover from an injury, improving my mobility, or fine-tuning my body mechanics, she always knows exactly what to do. I trust her methods to not only help me perform at my best but also to keep me doing what I love for years to come.

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Dede Griesbauer

 

If you are an athlete?  You dread going to the PT for the first time.  It means you're injured, and that's no fun.
My experience with Ryn was different from other PTs the moment I met her.  She listened intently as I told her what was going on.  Her evaluation, then went tip to toe looking not only at my issue, but at every aspect of my movement patterns to help identify not only the source of my injury, but to look for other contributing factors.
The treatment was effective.  Ryn was so positive and confident.  Not blowing sunshine, necessarily, but a quiet confidence that seemed to say, "Sure, not ideal, but I got you and we'll fix this and get you back out there."
I was sent home with a reasonable and realistic list of homework so that I could work on all the things we'd discussed during my appointment; things related specifically to my injury, and also to preventing other issues from popping up based on what she'd seen during my evaluation.
PT's seem a dime a dozen in Boulder, but when Ryn left Boulder, Boulder lost one of the best."
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Matt Hanson

I had the pleasure of working with Dr Ryn Proctor on a number of different occasions. Dr. Proctor was not only helpful with treating injuries and niggles that popped up doing the course of my career, but she was also an essential part of my injury prevention team. Ryn earned my trust the first time we connected when she immediately started looking for the root cause of my issue rather than just treating the symptoms like so many did in the past. From then on, she became my go-to whenever anything popped up unexpectedly. I also worked a few times a month as training volumes started to ramp up to make sure we were staying ahead of any of the overuse injuries I’ve been plagued with throughout my career