OT addresses changes in arm function, vision, cognition, and endurance after stroke. We work together to meet your goals, provide training to help family members and care partners support you, and provide education on brain health, including steps you can take to prevent another stroke.

Rise Up Occupational Therapy partners with neuroscientists at Massachusetts General Brigham and UMass Lowell to provide cutting edge evidence-based treatments. This partnership allows us to implement new, more effective and intensive treatments, such as brain-training exercise games that you can do at home on your mobile device.

We are one of just a few “learning” rehab clinics that tracks and analyzes recovery in the real world (i.e. outside a research lab) to advance and better personalize our treatments. We do not provide experimental (i.e. unproven) treatments in our clinic, but you will be the first to learn about opportunities to participate in research studies at Massachusetts General Brigham and UMass Lowell.

In OT we’ll work together so that you better understand what is often a confusing condition, and develop a personalized toolkit to improve your body’s regulation so that your symptoms of the functional neurological disorder (FND) decrease in intensity and frequency.

While for many people it seems that their FND symptoms come out of the blue, in OT you’ll explore what contributes to your symptoms and problem solve ways to alter those elements and manage your body’s response to them. You’ll also learn how to modify activities that have been challenging, so that you can do them more easily.

Our aim is to provide you with the skills and tools to gradually return to activities and roles that are important to you. Our treatment is guided by what has been developed by the FND team at Massachusetts General Brigham, one of the leaders in FND treatment.

People who have had concussions can have a range of symptoms including fatigue, difficulty thinking, nausea, sensitivity to light and noise, and blurred or double vision. These make it difficult to return to school and work, be in crowded or noisy settings, read, and spend time with family and friends.

In occupational therapy, you’ll learn techniques and exercises to improve your symptoms, and strategies to manage them so that when they occur, they don’t spike. Together we will problem solve how to slowly return to challenging activities and settings by using pacing, environmental modifications, and self-regulation strategies.