For New Patients

A physical therapist is your partner in restoring and maintaining motion so that you can get freedom from chronic pain. If you are seeking an alternative to surgery or you want to reduce and/or eliminate the use of habit-forming pain relief drugs, consider physical therapy.

Yonemoto Physical Therapy is a private physical therapist-owned practice that has been open since 1982.  We are a trusted physical therapy provider and the top choice of many doctors, dentists, physicians, and surgeons in Los Angeles county.

How to Choose Your Physical Therapist

Physical therapists in private practice offer affordable, high quality care.  Yonemoto Physical Therapy works in collaboration with your doctor to manage your health and wellness over the long term. We give your doctor progress reports throughout your entire treatment.  With physical therapy, you rehabilitate and regain maximal function so you can be yourself again!  Meet our physical therapists.

Get the Facts

You have a choice in who you go to for physical therapy.
You do not need to go where you are automatically referred by your doctor’s office.

  • The number of physical therapy visits per patient were 39%-45% higher in physician-owned physical therapy clinics. 1
  • The costs were as much as 30-40% higher in physician-owned clinics. 2
  • Licensed and non-licensed providers of physical therapy at physician-owned clinics spend less time with each patient as compared to private physical therapy practices. 3


The choice is yours: your recovery, health and well-being is in your hands.


Learn More

Visit the Move Forward, a website created by the American Physical Therapy Association to educate patients about physical therapy and treatment of movement disorders.

1 Mitchell, J., Scott, E., Physician Ownership of Physical Therapy Services: Effects on Charges, Utilization, Profits, and Service Characteristics, Journal of American Medical Association, 1992.
2 “Joint Ventures Among Health Care Providers in Florida,” State of Florida Health Care Cost Containment Board, 1991.
3 Federal Office of Inspector General May 1, 2006–Report calls into question billing processes performed by non-physical therapist owned practices.

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