Maintenance Therapy in Lakewood.

You worked hard to get that movement back. This is how you keep it: guided visits at a frequency that fits your life, reassessed so it never runs on autopilot.

After you finish therapy Reassessed, not automatic Talk to a Specialist

What It Is

Getting it back was the hard part. Keeping it is the plan.

You finished your course of therapy and for a while it held. Then the stiff mornings crept back. The old knee started talking. You did the home exercises less and less, because life got busy again, and nobody was checking. Starting over is the thing you least want to do.

Maintenance Therapy is the ongoing version. Guided strength and mobility work, hands-on joint and soft tissue treatment, movement and posture correction, plus the practical stuff: managing stress and recovery, and spotting a flare-up while it is still small.

Frequency is built around you. Some people come monthly, others more often. Either way it gets reassessed on a schedule, because therapy nobody re-examines is just a standing appointment. If you are looking for the Medicare coverage question specifically, that lives on our Functional Maintenance page.

Licensed physical therapist reviewing an ongoing exercise plan with a returning patient in the Lakewood clinic Reassessed, never on autopilot

What It Helps

Who keeps the appointment, on purpose.

Recurring back, neck or joint pain, and any condition where losing ground between visits is the real risk.

Arthritis Parkinson’s Stroke Recovery Chronic Pain The flare-up you can feel coming

What A Session Looks Like

Every visit earns its place.

1

We recheck movement, strength and flexibility.

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Hands-on work wherever it stiffened up.

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We adjust the plan before you leave.

Why It Works

You never start from zero again.

Small flare-ups instead of full setbacks.

You stop losing ground between visits.

A frequency that fits your life, not ours.

Someone is still checking the details.

Pairs Well With

What pairs with it.

Functional Maintenance The Medicare side: what the Jimmo Settlement means for skilled maintenance care. Physical Therapy Cause-first evaluation and hands-on care, one-on-one every visit.

Questions, Answered

Before you book the next one.

Yes, and you should know a plateau is not automatically the end of covered care. The Jimmo Settlement Agreement of 2013 made clear that Medicare covers skilled therapy needed to maintain a condition or slow further deterioration. Whether it applies to you depends on your plan and your medical need, so we check. Our Functional Maintenance page walks through that side in full.

Some people do well on monthly visits. Others need more regular support, especially early on. If you are rebuilding something rather than holding it, the general guideline is 2–3 visits a week for 4–6 weeks, and that is a guideline, never a guarantee. Sessions run 30–60 minutes. As for a referral, California Direct Access lets you be seen by a licensed physical therapist without a physician sign-off for up to 45 days or 12 visits, whichever comes first.

Frequently, yes. We accept 14 insurance plans plus all PPOs, and we are specialists at working with Medicare. Ongoing therapy is where plans differ most, so we verify your exact benefits before you commit and tell you plainly what is covered and what is not. Call us at (562) 512-3320 and we will look it up with you.

Book Your Visit

Ready when you are.

Request a time and a real person calls you back during business hours. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.

  • Hours Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
  • (562) 512-3320 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
  • No doctor’s referral needed to start

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