Our Facility in Lake Charles
An infant working on feeding and an adult relearning to walk after a stroke are treated in the same building here, so the building has to work for both. Our Lake Charles clinic keeps the pediatric spaces separate from the adult gym, keeps the noise down on purpose, and has its own indoor therapy pool. Look around below before you ever pick up the phone.
Calm is a clinical decision, not decoration.
You know the waiting room where a television is competing with a radio and three conversations at once. If your child has a sensory disorder, that room can end an appointment before it starts, and if you are the one arriving in pain, it does not help you either.
So we built ours the other way around. Soft light, quiet rooms, and a floor plan that keeps pediatric sessions out of the middle of adult gym traffic. It is the detail families mention most often when they talk about coming here.
Started coming to get my Son Occupational Therapy, and he Loves his therapist she is super sweet and it has a wonderful atmosphere here very relaxing and calm, no loud noises.
Room to actually move.
Adult therapy needs floor space, not a hallway and a resistance band. The open gym holds treatment tables, training stairs with handrails, seated and recumbent training machines, treadmills and full length mirrors, so your therapist can watch how you move and correct it in the same visit instead of guessing between appointments.
Sessions run 30 to 60 minutes and stay one on one from your evaluation through to discharge. The therapist who assesses you is the therapist who treats you.
Kids work harder when it looks like a playground.
Ask a four year old to do ten repetitions and you will lose them. Hang a set of rings from the ceiling and they will do fifty without noticing. The pediatric space is built for that: a suspended frame with rings and ropes, climbing walls, a slide with stair access, mats and a trampoline, plus adaptive seating and a small table for the fine motor and handwriting work that follows.
Occupational therapy, physical therapy and speech sessions all use these rooms, which is part of why the sensory environment matters so much. Quiet, predictable, and nothing louder than it needs to be.
Some bodies cannot carry their own weight yet.
Water takes the load off the joint while still asking the muscle to work, which makes it one of the few ways to start moving early when land based exercise is still too much. Our Lake Charles building has its own indoor therapy pool with stair entry, a handrail, lockers and changing space, and it is used with children and adults alike. Read more about how we use it on our aquatic therapy page →
The therapy pool is at our Lake Charles location, 1727 Imperial Boulevard Building #3. We also see patients in Lafayette at 1512 Camellia Boulevard. Call (337) 478-5880 → and we will tell you which location fits what you need.