Vargo Physical Therapy

RUN! This place is terrible, and potentially dangerous imo. I strongly suggest you avoid going there. I have a background in Kinesiology, and have worked with several physical therapy clinics in the Los Angeles. I was referred to Vargo for treatment. Vargo is by far the worst physical therapy clinic I have encountered. Ever. Anything else would be better. LA has many clinics that are more professional, and who hire physical therapists (not interns) that are capable. Vargo is not such a place, unfortunately. It is the McDonalds of physical therapy. At Vargo, quantity of patients is valued over quality of care. Clinics like this give physical therapists a bad name. I conveyed my thoughts to the doctor who referred me to Vargo, and he said that he has heard similar complaints about Vargo.

This place is great. The facility is clean, well equipped and easy to get to. The two PT’s who supervise your care and work with you are skilled and care about the patient. I’ve worked with a number of the assistants who take me through my exercises and all of them are great. I know I will need PT after my surgery and I plan to go back to Vargo as I trust and appreciate their work.

I really liked this place… people with sunny dispositions helped me to heal my knee.

I just had a knee replacement and this place was recommended to me by a friend who also had a knee surgery a couple of years ago and went here. The people here are super friendly and fun, the Physical Therapists really know their stuff, additionally the Aids are engaged and energetic and care about what they are doing; it’s not just a job. The physical therapists explain how the exercises help vs just making you do stuff. I went to another PT company in the Valley and it was night and day from this place. I was kind of jaded at first when I went to Vargo because of the bad experience I had, but they turned my attitude around. Highly recommend. Free parking and a nice space as well.

Great establishment. The staff is very helpful and professional. Nick is personable and knowledgeable regarding helpful exercises and treatments — a true man of Esque.
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Kirsten and Kristen are da best!
Was in about a year ago with a torn calf. They made sure I got to do anything and everything I could to get back out on the basketball court. A lot of times I’d be in there w a bunch of older people and they’d have me running up and down the middle aisle of their place in front all the other patients and making a bunch of noise and they didn’t care because it’s what I needed for my therapy. I came out of there in great shape with my calf feeling excellent.
Beyond that they are all great people to spend some time with while you’re in recovery… the assistants Lev and Knark are awesome and knowledgeable and Sally the receptionist is really sweet and helpful as well!
Highly recommend if you are in need of therapy.

I LOVE THIS PLACE! Excellent front office, you walk in and are always greeted with a smile. The therapists are great, too. Dan Farewell was my therapist and he helped me out a lot. Knowledgeable and attentive aides make it an all around great path to recovery. I highly recommend this place!

After visiting over a dozen PT clinics across the USA and working in one in the past, this is a very basic «do it yourself» physical therapy center. I am an athlete and communicated to them on day one that I wanted to «leave no stone unturned» and wanted to explore every treatment and healing modality option available. When those questions weren’t answered, I should have known this was not the place for me.
It is a group environment of around 8 patients at a time in the room, with one or two actual PTs and several students (who are great people, working hard, doing the best they can in a tight job market). One of the physical therapists was good, but you only work with him for 5 minutes or so at the end of the session as he takes you through range of motion and tests joint mobility. The clinic is not up to date, and seems like a throw-​back to the 80s or early 90s when I used to visit PT clinic frequently as an athlete. Ask them about using a lacrosse ball, and they give you a blank look. That should be very basic these days. No, of course they have never heard of
After your first few sessions, you just go through the motions on your own with zero coaching queues or explanations. You could do this at home, since they are basically the same exercises every week. There was not a single conversation about proper movement patterns, functional movement, or improper movement patterns that would have likely caused the injury in the first place (Shoulder/​SLAP in my case). Occasionally an undergrad student will come by and offer advice on moving properly.
I could not recommend Vargo in good conscience unless it is your only option. I rented my own GameReady machine since they did not offer the treatment (even though they owned units). Must not have been bill-​able to insurance. For athletes, this is not a place you would want to consider. Again, the people here are nice and mean well, but this is your body and in Los Angeles with all of the competition there is no reason to settle. Being new to the area, I wish I had known better.
I won’t get into the billing department, but suffice it to say that you should get EVERYTHING IN WRITING ahead of time, from the PT. That is… if you unfortunately pick this PT clinic.

Broke the hell out of my ankle earlier this year playing kickball. (yeah… I know.) Anyway, after recovering from surgery and spending 8 weeks in a cast, my leg was jelly, and I was in serious need of PT.
Jesse, Amy, Jimmy and all the rest of the staff at Vargo are top notch. I always felt like I was in capable hands and they really care for their patients.
After a couple months of PT, I’ve regained full range of motion and am well on my way to being back to normal… or at least as normal as it gets with a titanium plate in your leg.
Highly recommend these guys.

I broke my left humerus (arm) in 3 places trying my neighbor to help find her cat. well, I ended up falling down a hill after my flip flop got caught in a huge crack in the asphalt & I went on my feet downhill smashing into a concrete wall at age over 60.
Agony & trying to do everything with one arm was awful. I ended up at Vargo and loved the place. I still have 7 more sessions to go but was even hesitant to go to any therapy. I thought i could do it on my own. I am so glad I’m going & got to the right place. it’s been 3 months since my fall and never had surgery so I’m hoping that this cast is the right way to go. I can’t recommend Vargo enough.

I broke my ankle a couple months ago and needed physical therapy after the cast was off. Boy am I lucky I chose this place. Amy, the physical therapist, and the rest of her staff are the best. They are in communication with their patients, finding out how it is going and have genuine concern for your well being. I even started exercising again because of the motivation I received from them.

Remember your childhood?
Those crazy days of running and jumping and falling… bouncing up like nothing happened…
Ahhh…the memories…
Well, not for me. I had the physical ailments of a 90 year-​old woman even when I was a teenage boy.
So as we fast forward a couple decades, physical therapy is a necessity. This broken down lemon of a body had been taken all over town before winding up at Vargo. No, it wasn’t my first rodeo… or second… or third… so I’m pleased to say this is the place for me!
Amy, the physical therapist, is truly a master of what she does. She has years of experience… an incredible personality… the hands of a magician… not to mention an accent that sounds like one of Da Bears guys from Saturday Night Live.
This place gets my highest recommendation. As long as Amy and her great staff are here, I’m not going anywhere else!