Starts visit one
Pain
Settle the injury down.
Hands-on work and a custom splint if the injury needs protecting while it calms down.
What We Treat
Work injury treatment in Vancouver, WA.
A cut, a crush, a repetitive strain from the same motion a thousand times a shift. Whatever caught up with your hand or arm on the job, we treat the injury and help you get back to doing the work.
Sound Familiar?
Does this sound like the injury from your job?
- A specific incident, a cut, a crush, a fall, that you can point to and describe
- Pain from the same repetitive motion, hour after hour, shift after shift
- Uncertainty about whether you can go back to your job the way it is set up now
- A claim number and a stack of paperwork you are not sure what to do with
- Worry about how you will do your job at all if the hand does not fully recover
- Pressure to get back on the job before you actually feel ready
Two or more? Keep reading.
Why It Happens
Your job asks your hands to do the same thing, every single day.
Work injuries to the hand and arm generally fall into two groups. One is a single event: a cut, a crush, a fall, a machine that caught a glove. The other builds slowly, a repetitive grip, a jarring tool, an awkward workstation, wearing down a tendon or joint over months until one ordinary shift is the one where it finally gives out. Both need the same thing afterward: an honest look at what the job actually demands of your hands, not just what the injury looks like on its own.
That is where treatment starts. We evaluate the injury and the job side by side, so the plan accounts for what you are actually going back to, not a generic desk job you do not have.
The Honest Truth
Going back too soon costs you more than waiting a little longer.
If you keep waiting
- An untreated injury heals in whatever position and strength you leave it in
- Going back too soon, before grip and endurance are actually ready, risks re-injury
- Without a plan on paper, it is harder to show anyone what progress has actually been made
If you start this week
- You leave visit one with a clear picture of the injury and what the job needs from your hand
- A custom splint here if the injury needs protecting while you keep working or heal
- A plan with an endpoint: you always know which phase you are in and what is left
Nobody regrets starting too early. Read our reviews and you will find people who wish they had come in sooner.
How We Fix It
Four phases. Built around getting back to the job.
Every plan has an endpoint. Here is what the four phases look like for a work injury.
Once the pain settles
Prime
Restore full motion.
The joint and tendon regain the range they lost, tracked against what your specific job asks them to do.
Once the motion holds
Perform
Build the strength the job requires.
Graded strengthening loaded toward the actual grip, lifting or repetitive demands of your role.
Before discharge
Prevent
Test it against the job, not the calendar.
We confirm the hand can actually do the task that injured it before we call you done. That is the endpoint, not another appointment.
I’ve been going too Gabbert Clinic for up to 4 months now. This is the best clinic of choice I have chosen during my workers comp. The staff is super friendly, it feels like you have known them for a long period of time. This clinic will be my first choice if I have a injury in the future!
Shared by Tim N. · Workers’ comp
Where you start: an injury and a job you are not sure you can go back to
Where the plan ends: a hand tested and ready for the work you do
Work injuries
Pain to Prevent
Questions, Answered
What people ask before booking for a work injury.
Yes. Tell us about your claim when you call and we will help you understand what we need from you to get started. Every claim is a little different, so we sort out the specifics with you rather than guessing at it here.
We test what your hand can actually do against what your job asks of it, and that becomes part of your record. Return-to-work decisions ultimately sit with your physician, and we give them an honest picture of where you stand to work from.
That depends on what the evaluation finds, so we tell you after we look, not before. What you get either way is a plan with an endpoint. You will know which of the four phases you are in, Pain, Prime, Perform or Prevent, and what is left before you are done. No open tab of appointments.
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