Occupational Therapy

Empowering Your Journey: Certified Experts, Advanced Equipment, and Personalized Care to Help You Achieve Every Goal.

Whether a person’s goal is to put on their favorite shirt, cook a meal, put on makeup, care for their child, play guitar, go hunting, work on carpentry skills, or get back on the basketball court, we make Occupational Therapy all about the individual and helping them get back to their everyday activities. Here, therapy isn’t slow or boring. Our therapy sessions are action-packed, energetic, and focused on functional skills that translate to real life and personal community.

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What makes our Occupational Therapy different

1:1 client therapist interaction during entire treatment time

We embrace task management, so clients work with task-specific activities and goals

A focus on the client’s internal motivations and personal passions

Therapy that promotes skills for daily independence and safety

Activities of daily living performed in a simulated, accessible environment

A focus on helping clients transition into their community

Collaborative approach with orthotic/equipment management

Intensive Training in:

- MyndMove Functional Electrical Stimulation

- Visual Perception/Visual System Skills

- Cognitive Rehabilitation

"I have been going to Life Beyond Barriers for a few months now and have nothing but the best things to say about my experience and all the staff there. I have worked with nearly every therapist there since I have started and they have all been fantastic."

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"The previous therapist told me nothing could be done, but not the therapist at LBB. He told me my muscles were deteriorating and the weaker my muscles were the more damage I could cause to the joints. He was realistic that the damage that had been done could not be reversed, but gave me tools, exercises and splints so I could continue my active life."

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"I love Life Beyond Barriers! The staff is friendly and cares about what I want and what I think. They don't put you in a box and say "OK you need this." I'm doing physical and occupational therapy there and wouldn't go anywhere else. It's a bit of a drive but so worth it. Best decision ever."

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"My son attends physical therapy, speech therapy and soon to be occupational therapy at LBB. Some of the therapists recently have been trained in DMI therapy and it has been a total game changer for my son with cerebral palsy. They have all sorts of amazing equipment for kids of all abilities."

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"I had a stroke and brain surgery in mid-May. Following my in-patient care I was able to begin outpatient therapy at Life Beyond Barriers. I am extremely grateful to the people who recommended using Life Beyond Barriers for my occupational, physical, and speech therapies. The staff are phenomenal!!"

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Certifications and Training

Certified Brain Injury Specialists (CBIS)

Neuro-Developmental Treatment (C/NDT)

Saebo

Dynamic Movement Intervention, Intro Level A (DMI)

Innovative Technology & Equipment

- Body-weight support system (BWSS)

- State-of-the-art therapy pool (see Aquatic Therapy)

- Saebo

- NuStep Recumbant Bike Cross Trainer

- Whole Body Vibration

- MyndMove Functional Electrical Stimulation

- Functional Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Suite

Suite including accessible kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, laundry (bedroom and laundry suite not available at Rockford location)