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The practice, and why it still works this way.

A short version of how we started, what we believe, and why every visit is still one-on-one with a physical therapist.

Jason Ferine, MSPT, coaching a client through a climbing exercise at Jason Ferine Physical Therapy in Los Angeles, CA
01 How we started 01 / 06

It started with a stopwatch problem.

Jason Ferine, MSPT, spent years practicing inside the model most patients already know: a packed schedule, a hallway of rooms, and a doctor’s title attached to whatever slice of the hour was left over once the paperwork and the handoffs were done. He spent his first years in skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities on the East Coast, then relocated to Los Angeles and moved into outpatient therapy, aquatic rehabilitation, and fitness training, eventually serving as assistant clinic director at a physical therapy practice in Santa Monica.

Every one of those settings taught him something. None of them let him run a full evaluation and then be the one who actually treated what it found, visit after visit, without handing the patient off to someone else in the building.

In September 2016, he opened Jason Ferine Physical Therapy in Westwood: one practice, one therapist, care that starts with a real evaluation and ends with a plan you can actually finish.

Jason Ferine, MSPT, founder of Jason Ferine Physical Therapy
Jason Ferine · MSPT
“I believe in the healing power of human touch. That’s still the center of how I treat every patient who walks in here.”
Jason Ferine · MSPT
02 The model 02 / 06

One-on-one, on purpose.

Not a line on our wall. The operating decision everything else is built around.

One-on-one isn’t a slogan here. It’s the only way a cause-first evaluation stays useful past the first visit. The therapist who finds the actual reason for your pain is the same therapist treating you at visit two, and visit six, because that reasoning doesn’t transfer well between three different aides taking notes on three different clipboards.

If you’re reading an about page before booking anything, you’re not being difficult. You want to know who’s actually going to put hands on you, and that’s a reasonable thing to want from a physical therapist. It’s the same instinct Jason Ferine had on the other side of the table, which is most of the reason this model exists at all.

Skip the cause-first step and pain has a habit of finding its way back to the exact place you left it: the shoulder that behaves right up until the weekend you finally reach overhead for real, the back that holds up until the move, the trip, the yard work you’d been putting off. A plan with an endpoint only works if somebody actually found the endpoint first.

Every plan that comes out of that evaluation moves through the same four phases, Pain, Prime, Perform, Prevent, in that order, whether the diagnosis is a stiff shoulder or a knee six weeks post-op. The phases don’t change. The specifics inside them do.

Model One patient, one therapist, 40 minutes
Evaluation Cause-first, hands-on from visit one
The plan Four phases, named endpoint
Referral Not required. Direct access in CA
03 What we believe 03 / 06

What we believe.

Six convictions we build every appointment around, not six words on a wall.

  1. 01The evaluation is the treatment, not paperwork standing in front of it.
  2. 02Where it hurts and why it hurts are frequently two different places.
  3. 03A plan without an end date isn’t a plan. It’s an open tab.
  4. 04Hands-on care doesn’t retire once the pain does; strength is what keeps you off our schedule for good.
  5. 05A patient who understands their own plan tends to follow it better than one who was just handed a sheet.
  6. 06Direct access means you don’t wait on somebody else’s referral to start getting better.
04 In the neighborhood 04 / 06

Part of the neighborhood, not just located in it.

We see patients from Westwood, Brentwood, Century City, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and Bel Air, and most weeks we recognize half the names on the schedule before the front desk finishes reading them off. Los Angeles is a small enough town that your physical therapist might also be your neighbor, your kid’s coach, or the person three cars back at pickup. It’s harder to treat someone like a number when you might see them again at the grocery store.

Inside the treatment space at Jason Ferine Physical Therapy in Los Angeles
The treatment space
Strength and mobility equipment at Jason Ferine Physical Therapy in Los Angeles
The strength floor
The JFPT wall signage inside Jason Ferine Physical Therapy in Los Angeles, CA
On the wall

Come meet the therapist holding the plan.

05 The intake 05 / 06

Put it in writing.

Five short questions. Our virtual assistant typically responds the same business day but may take up to 24 hours.

The people who end up filling this out are rarely in the worst pain of their life. They’re just done working around it, done picking the errand that doesn’t require the stairs. If that’s the stage you’re at, this is the part where you stop researching and start.

Hours Mon-Fri: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Appointment request 01 / 05

So we know who to ask for when we call.

We’ll need a name to book you in.

That didn’t go through. Call us at (424) 365-2083 and we’ll book you by phone.
06 Where we are 06 / 06

Easy to find. Easy to park.

In the neighborhood, with parking half a block away. Come see the place before you commit, if you like.

Map 01The neighborhood

The clinic · Jason Ferine Physical Therapy

Address 2300 Westwood Blvd. Ste 101, Los Angeles, CA 90064
Fax (424) 325-5225
Hours Mon-Fri: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Parking Metered parking, plus free 2-hour street parking on Tennessee Ave. and Glendon Ave., half a block away

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