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We measure the joint and check the scar and swelling.
Orthopedic Therapy in Vancouver, WA
The bone healed and the arm still does not work. This is the part after the cast: motion, strength and confidence rebuilt in an order that respects exactly what your surgeon repaired.
What It Is
The cast comes off. Then what?
Orthopedic therapy treats the injury and the repair itself: fractures, tendon repairs, ligament tears, and the joint stiffness that follows all of them. Your surgeon fixed the structure. Getting it to move and hold load again is a different job.
It is also a job with a clock on it. Scar lays down whether you are working or not. A joint that sits still gets harder to move every week it sits, and motion is far easier to keep than to win back.
You are the one who works through things. That instinct is why you waited, and it is also why you will do the work now that you are here. We get the protocol directly from your surgeon, manage scar and swelling from the first visit, then return strength in a sequence instead of all at once. One-on-one with a licensed Occupational Therapist, several board-certified in hand therapy (CHT), every visit.
We talk to your surgeon
What It Helps
Where orthopedic 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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Warmth and hands-on work to buy motion, at a pressure you set.
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Loading that keeps what we just gained, within the protocol.
What You Get Back
Four ways the arm gets usable again.
Motion won before the scar decides.
Strength that holds up at work.
A joint you finally stop guarding.
One plan, with your surgeon in it.
Pairs Well With
Orthopedic Therapy rarely works alone.
Questions, Answered
What people ask after surgery.
You will feel stretch and effort, and sometimes a little soreness the next day. You should not feel injury. The Pain phase comes first for exactly this reason: we calm swelling and irritation before we push motion. Hands-on work happens at a pressure you set, and it stops the moment you say so.
Bone and tendon heal on their own timeline, and yours depends on what was repaired. So instead of a number of visits, you get a plan with an endpoint: Pain, Prime, Perform, Prevent. Each phase has a job and something you have to be able to do before you earn the next one. You will know exactly where you stand.
Most people reach us through a referral from their surgeon or physician, and many insurance plans require one before they will pay. Some plans do not. Call (360) 989-1200 and we will check what your plan requires before your first visit, so nothing stalls at the front desk.
That depends on your plan. We are an insurance-based clinic and we bill most major carriers, including Regence BCBS, Aetna, Cigna, Medicare and Providence, plus work injury and auto claims. The full list is on our insurance page. We check your benefits before your first visit and tell you 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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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