Your visit. Not shared.
No techs bouncing between rooms, no handoffs mid-visit. Just you and a licensed physical therapist, the whole time.
About The PT People
Most clinics manage your symptoms and call it a plan. We built this place to end them: one-on-one with a licensed physical therapist, every single visit.
Our Story
Dr. Carlos Pineda III, PT, DPT, Board-Certified Geriatric Clinical Specialist, Co-Founder
The PT People did not start out as The PT People. For years this clinic ran under a different name, doing the same work for the same neighbors, on the same corner of South Street. Changing the name was not a fresh coat of paint. It was a decision to be named after the part that actually matters.
Dr. Carlos Pineda III co-founded it after fourteen years as a Director of Rehabilitation in skilled nursing homes. That is a long time spent with people at the exact moment independence starts slipping: after the fall, after the stroke, after the diagnosis nobody saw coming. It is also where he learned how often the difference between getting it back and not comes down to whether anyone bothered to find the cause.
So the clinic got built around that. Physical therapy and a dozen other specialties in one building, so care never gets scattered across town. A cause-first evaluation. One therapist who owns your whole visit. A plan with an endpoint. The people who do best here are the ones who fix things: their houses, their teams, their families. This is where they finally fix the thing they’ve been putting off: themselves.
What We Believe
No techs bouncing between rooms, no handoffs mid-visit. Just you and a licensed physical therapist, the whole time.
You’ve probably chased the pain itself before and never found why it started. We find the why, then the ache stops coming back.
You shouldn’t need a punch card. Every plan comes with a graduation date, so you always know how close you are.
Your job, your body, your goals: that’s what your plan is built around, never pulled from a generic sheet.
The Difference
Know what is wrong from your first visit.
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Board-Certified Geriatric Clinical Specialist and Therapeutic Pain Specialist, currently in fellowship for pain science.
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Physical therapist assistant, working your plan alongside your therapist.
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Physical therapist assistant, working your plan alongside your therapist.
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Inside the Clinic
Rooted in Lakewood
We treat Lakewood and Long Beach every week: your neighbors, your teammates, your kids’ coaches. The mom who’s been pushing through it so nobody else has to worry? She’s probably on our schedule too. Recovery is a lot more personal when it’s local.
Book Your Visit
Request a time and a real person calls you back during business hours. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.
We call back during business hours, Monday to Friday
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That’s the hard part done. We’ll call during business hours to lock in your time.
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