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You name the task. We measure what is in the way.
Occupational Therapy in Vancouver, WA
Getting dressed without help. Driving your own errands. Making dinner start to finish. We begin with the task you want back, then build the plan backwards from it, one-on-one with a licensed Occupational Therapist, every visit.
What It Is
Not how far it bends. What it can do.
Most rehab asks how far the joint bends. Occupational therapy asks whether you can do the thing you needed it for. Buttons. Keys. A steering wheel. A hairbrush. A coffee cup you can carry across a room.
You are the one everyone else leans on, so you have been making do: one-handed, slower, working around it. That was never weakness. But making do has a price. The workaround becomes the habit, and the arm quietly stops being asked to do anything at all.
So no, this is not a gadget and it is not a printout of exercises. It starts with a cause-first evaluation, then works backwards from the task you named. Hands-on work, graded practice, splinting where it helps, and honest measurement of what changed. One-on-one with a licensed Occupational Therapist, several board-certified in hand therapy (CHT), every visit.
Built around your actual day
What It Helps
Where occupational therapy earns its place.
If any of these is the reason you are reading this page, you are in the right spot.
What A Session Looks Like
Three steps, every visit.
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Hands-on work at a pressure you control, then movement.
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You try the real task before you walk out.
What You Get Back
Four pieces of your day, back.
Getting dressed without waiting for help.
Running your own errands again.
A workday that stops costing you nights.
Two hands on the things that matter.
Pairs Well With
Occupational Therapy rarely works alone.
Questions, Answered
What people ask before they book.
You will feel effort, not damage. Pain is the first of our four phases, and it comes first on purpose: we settle swelling and irritation before we ask the arm to do anything hard. Hands-on work happens at a pressure you set, and it stops the moment you say so. Nothing gets sprung on you.
You get a plan with an endpoint, not an open-ended punch card. Your cause-first evaluation ends with the order of operations: Pain, Prime, Perform, Prevent. Every phase has a job and a way to know you have finished it. Your therapist tells you where you are, and updates the plan as your arm changes.
Most of our patients come to us by referral from a physician or a surgeon, and many insurance plans require one before they will pay. Some plans do not. Call us at (360) 989-1200 and we will check what your plan asks for, so you are not sorting that out on your own.
This is an insurance-based clinic, and we bill most major plans, including Regence BCBS, Aetna, Cigna, Medicare, Providence and auto insurance. You can read the whole list on our insurance page. We check your benefits before your first visit and tell you exactly what we find.
Book Your Visit
Ready when you are.
Request a time and a real person from our front desk calls you back to get you scheduled. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.
- Hours Mon–Fri 7:00am–5:00pm · Sat–Sun closed
- (360) 989-1200 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
- One-on-one with a licensed Occupational Therapist, every visit
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Your request goes straight to our front desk
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Request sent.
That’s the hard part done. We’ll call during clinic hours to get you on the schedule and tell you what to bring.
Visit Us
Care this good, this close.
Gabbert Clinic
- 7710 NE Greenwood Dr # 150, Vancouver, WA 98662
- (360) 989-1200
- Fax: (360) 583-3442
- admin@gabbertclinic.com
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Mon–Fri 7:00am–5:00pm
Sat–Sun closed