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Melissa L. Mara, OT

Occupational Therapist

5.0

211 ratings Read Reviews

Northwestern Medical Group

Primary Specialty

Occupational/Physical Therapy

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Education

Professional Education:: MS, Washington University School of Medicine - 2013

Practice Groups and Affiliations

Medical Group:: Northwestern Medical Group
Alignment Category:: Northwestern Medicine Physician Network

Ratings and Reviews

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Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

211 Ratings

Reviews from Patients

41 Reviews

Reviews from Patients

41 Reviews

April 08, 2025

5.0

She is an absolute delight.

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March 27, 2025

5.0

Melissa will get you results!! She's positive, encouraging and knows how to get the most out of you in your recovery.

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March 27, 2025

5.0

She is extremely knowledgeable and delightful

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March 26, 2025

5.0

Knowledgeable & personable patient rehabilitation therapist.

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March 25, 2025

5.0

She is great. Melissa is a wonderful, helpful, talented and compassionate therapist.

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March 25, 2025

5.0

Melissa is very encouraging and truly interested in providing quality care. She is personable, professional and patient explaining the process and how to apply medications, gauze wrappings, splint...

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March 19, 2025

5.0

She does a wonderful job; she knows so much and knows how to address your specifics

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March 13, 2025

5.0

she was very professional and helpful in her advice on my recovery .

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March 07, 2025

5.0

Melissa is amazing - I've made such good progress working with her. Plus, she's just super fun and friendly - she makes OT appointments something you actually look forward to.

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March 05, 2025

5.0

terrific OT -- knowledgeable and expert and so helpful

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February 27, 2025

5.0

Understand my needs and provide guidance for best care

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February 27, 2025

5.0

Melissa is awesome - patient, helpful, able to adapt my exercises to what suits me best. Plus she's just really fun to talk with during your appointment.

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February 26, 2025

5.0

Super nice and helpful through everything. Has been honest about worries and great with allowing progression to happen faster to help start the path of full recovery.

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February 25, 2025

5.0

Absolutely! She is very knowledgable, skilled, answers all my questions and a delightful person.

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February 19, 2025

5.0

She's compassionate, clear and helpful and I genuinely feel like she's going to get me back to 100%

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February 17, 2025

5.0

Caring & dedicated OT professional.

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February 13, 2025

5.0

Melissa is knowledgeable and very helpful

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February 03, 2025

5.0

Melissa is someone who immediately puts you at ease. I feel like she really listens to my concerns and makes the necessary adjustments to my exercises and routine.

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February 02, 2025

5.0

she was patient in explaining my pt plan. she was extremely knowledge and easy to talk to

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January 31, 2025

5.0

Melissa is smart, attentive, and caring. She helped me greatly in post-surgery therapy resulting in a better outcome after a not so great surgical result in my opinion.

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January 20, 2025

5.0

Melissa is super easygoing, explains everything thoroughly and makes you feel confident in your recovery.

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January 20, 2025

5.0

i put everything about office, medical team, doctors and therapists in the first box.

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January 11, 2025

5.0

Excellent therapy.

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January 06, 2025

5.0

Super kind, very knowledgeable and optimistic.

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December 22, 2024

5.0

Dr. Mara explains everything very clearly and makes sure that I understand the instructions thoroughly. She demonstrates the exercises, gives me a print-out, and also sends a link so that I can follow the exercises online.

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December 18, 2024

5.0

Knows what she is doing

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December 10, 2024

5.0

Personal concern and care and a good sense of humor!

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December 08, 2024

5.0

Very caring

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December 04, 2024

5.0

She listened to my requests the brace redid it when I thought thumb was too tight

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November 18, 2024

5.0

I have a better quality of life

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November 07, 2024

5.0

Knowledgable, good listener, clearly explained post-surgical exercise program to regain function

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November 06, 2024

5.0

Encouraging regarding progress takes time, explains how/why the different exercises work, sincerely means it when asks if I have questions (real answer and often circles back to the question during session)

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November 01, 2024

5.0

Helpful and cheerful

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October 29, 2024

5.0

She's great.

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September 24, 2024

5.0

Very nice, friendly & professional

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September 22, 2024

5.0

She has a fun laugh and is very patient.

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September 18, 2024

5.0

Didn't just demonstrate the exercises, she did some of them with me and adapted them to fit my current needs!

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September 17, 2024

5.0

Professional, carefully explains exercises, is patient

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September 11, 2024

5.0

She explained everything about my symptoms logically and thoroughly, demonstrated exercises and gave me a time line for what improvements to expect. If I had had these explanations preoperatively or at the time the dressing came off I wouldn't have needed the visit. But it was very helpful. I would suggest an OT visit as a routine on the day the dressing comes off.

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September 05, 2024

5.0

Explains everything carefully

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September 01, 2024

5.0

Responded to my questions, explained what the strength readings indicated for my hands, and made it clear that it will take time, but she can help.

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Disclosures

Melissa L. Mara, OT reported no external professional relationships for calendar year 2024.

External Professional Relationships

Pharmaceutical, device, and biotechnology companies frequently collaborate with basic scientists and physicians within an academic medical center to help advance science and improve patient care. These relationships are important in achieving scientific breakthroughs and in establishing the effectiveness and safety of promising new therapies. In order to assure objectivity in clinical research and patient care, the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (Feinberg), Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, Children's Hospital of Chicago Medical Center, and the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab have adopted integrity policies that require research and clinical faculty (in full-time, part-time, and unpaid/voluntary categories) to report compensated and uncompensated external industry relationships. Patients are encouraged to discuss these disclosures with their physician as well as to inquire as to how these relationships are overseen by Feinberg. To learn more about our Disclosure and Professional Integrity Policy, and the conflict of interest policies of our joint affiliate survey partners, please go to our Office for Regulatory Affairs Policies page.

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