Conejo Valley Physical Therapy

I met Jennifer Vonarb today in her Physical therapy clinic. My doctor referred me for neck and shoulder pain. I have a rare disorder known as Ehlers-​Danlos Syndrome. This affects all of my joints, my skin and my insides. My body doesn’t do things the way most PTs expect it to. Jennifer Vonarb is a specialist in treating people with my condition. The happy dance that I am doing cannot be curbed.
Having said that, I need to say much more about my first treatment today. She spent time with me, assessing my injury and getting to know my body’s reaction to pain. After evaluating me carefully, she began to gently massage and manipulate my neck and shoulders. She aligned me so much that I could already feel less tense. She taped my arm with kinesiotape. I’m feeling so much better now. I am not magically healed, but I have someone who knows how to treat me and is in my corner. To me, that’s everything.
I have high hopes for the future. Having a practitioner of physical therapy and Kinesiology who understands me and my condition is a bonus that will improve my quality of life greatly.

Jennifer Vonarb and her team at Conejo Valley Physical Therapy are awesome. I first met Jennifer to treat lower back discomfort that had plagued me for years. Jennifer evaluated, diagnosed and prescribed a treatment that changed my life. I’m not kidding. It was as if I had been healed and my quality of life restored. Throughout the years, when my back gets out of whack, I stop in for a quick adjustment and I’m back in business. It’s a great feeling, knowing that I have a resource that knows my issues, can quickly assess and realign my back and get me back to normal quickly. I highly recommend Jennifer Vonarb and her team at Conejo Valley Physical Therapy.

I have dealt with chronic knee issues for most of my life. I underwent my first knee surgery when I was 15 years old. Over the years I have experienced aches, pains, and limited mobility, all of which I thought to be «normal» considering the amount of trauma my joints have faced. I learned to live with it and went about my life as best as I could. A little over a year ago I began to notice these «normal» pains had progressed and I found myself almost completely unable to bend my knees. Stairs became my worst enemy and my quality of life, for the time, was feeling compromised. I am a professional performer so as you can imagine I NEED my body to work with me not against me. Along with these aches and pains came swelling. Again, something I originally though was just a part of the package when dealing with knee problems. However, this swelling was different because it stayed. For the past year I have been struggling with chronic swelling in my left leg, sometimes getting so big I could wear my pants or shoes. I went to doctor after doctor trying to figure out the problem and every single one either had no clue why someone my age (I was 29 at the time) would have this or just brushed it aside saying it was a consequence of all the surgeries and injuries I had in the past. This led to a year of severe frustration as I watched my body get worse and worse. You know that feeling you get when you just know something just isn’t right? Well, that’s what I felt with my leg so I decided to give it one more shot and finally found a doctor who pointed me in the direction of Jennifer. My very first consultation was like a God send. After evaluating me, Jennifer was able to tell me exactly what the problem was and how to fix it. It was like music to my ears. I was diagnosed with Stage 1 secondary lymph edema (sounds super scary, but it’s not that bad). I was wrapped and after four days, when I came in to be unwrapped, I was amazed with results! My leg had gone completely down and for the first time in over a year I saw my ankle!!! I have been coming here a little over a month now and For both my lymph edema as well as my knees and I couldn’t be more pleased with the results. I am getting stronger! The staff is so friendly and great so I actually enjoy coming to my appointments. What I love about Jennifer is she is direct and extremely knowledgable in her field. She is not only helping me with my handling the effects of my injuries, but helping alleviate the cause. Finally, I see light at the end of what’s been a very long tunnel.

Jennifer Vonarb is the most amazing therapist I’ve been to in 20 years! Her clinic in TO is so well located and equipped. My sciatica symptoms from driving 125 mi per day were killing me but a few sessions with Jen & Tessa eliminated them. No more sciatica! Yessss. Thank you CVPT. Sincerely Dr Peter R

As a stage 4 metastasized cancer survivor, I have lymphedema, debilitating, lifelong side-​effect from cancer surgery and radiation. Lymphedema requires hands-​on, daily care for life. There are only 2 places doing lymphedema physical therapy in the Valley. I had seen one place and they were now full so I attempted a new place, which was Conejo. I had a consultation which went extremely well, the owner, Jennifer seemed experienced, competent and eager to help me. She said after the consultation, I would need to schedule 1 – 2 weeks of appointments for daily bandaging for lymphedema treatment. When I went back in for the first bandaging apt, I was told a variety of confusing things about the bandages, first, that they would have to order them because they didn’t have them, which made no sense because 3 weeks or more had passed between my consultation and this apt. Why would they not have ordered or had on hand whatever I needed? Then they scurried around and asked each other questions and eventually said, well we do have the bandages you need, but your insurance won’t be billed so if you want to submit it to your insurance, we can order the bandages for you but you’ll have to come back when they come in. This is making less sense. I have no idea why this is, it’s been 3 weeks since I was here before this apt, why wouldn’t you have told me something like this during the consultation instead of waiting 3 weeks till the 1^st day of bandaging and now you are telling me we may or may not have the bandages? Eventually with more discussion back and forth I said, I’m here today, my mother flew in for 2 weeks from FLA to CA just to help me, I can’t wait till these are ordered or put through insurance so I tell her I can’t afford to wait or loose time for this treatment to start. So I pay for them out of pocket and miraculously, we proceed. The wrapping goes fine. But they didn’t provide or warn me I would need a special shoe. You can’t leave with bandages around your foot, so they find a plastic bag and tape it around my foot and lower leg. REALLY? 3 weeks they had to tell me to get an orthopedic shoe to wear during the treatment period and they couldn’t bother to tell me that? Unprofessional, unsafe and counter-​productive. Upon getting home, I remove the plastic bag to see the lower bandage around the foot had come loose. My mother helped wrap it up as you’re entire leg from top to bottom is bandaged like this, it’s nearly impossible to bend or reach your foot. So she fixed it temporarily. Throughout the early part of the day following, the lower bandages continued to fall off. It got tangled and was a mess, we no longer could fix it. These are supposed to stay on for 24 hours, a couple of hours in, this had already happened. I stumbled through the rest of the day and night and returned for the 2^nd apt. The owner, Jennifer, who had done the 1^st apt with me was oddly, not the one seeing me even though she was there. I was seen by the other physical therapist. The receptionist/​tech unwrapped me, then the other physical therapist did my wrap. They both did a lot of «hmmm ohhhh, I don’t know?» when they first saw the bandaging. After the 2^nd person did the wrap this time, Jennifer walked up and said, how did it go? Not good, I said, it came ¹⁄₃ unwrapped early on and was a mess. She literally just turned around and walked away. We leave to do a nearby errand, the wrapping has already collapsed around my knee area and is slipping down. It’s rubbing in a huge bunch behind my knee in less than 1 hour. We were still nearby so I called hoping they could take a quick look at it and maybe fix it. We were fine waiting, but they became uncomfortable we returned. Jennifer ushered me into a room and said, you can’t come back here like this, I have other patients, I can’t do this, I can’t help you — we’ve discussed it and we can’t treat you here. I said, if the same person did the bandaging each day and could see how it was working it would be more productive, she said, I don’t operate my business that way. She NEVER tried to help, troubleshoot or find out why bandaging jobs were ineffective — after being insistent she could help me and waiting almost a month for this apt, she said, there is nothing we can do here for you, we can’t help you. Never in my life have I been treated so badly and unprofessionally by someone in the medical profession. She wasn’t interested in hearing from the patient what-​so-​ever, always in a hurry like the place was on fire and she had to get out. She doesn’t interact with patients or care if she’s effective or not, if it doesn’t work day one, sorry goodbye, we can’t treat you here. So unprofessional, business ethics are extremely poor, patients have no chance of being treated like a human being. The only thing worse than having lymphedema is being treated like this during therapy on the 2^nd apt. Run, don’t walk, AWAY from this place, anywhere would be better!

Conejo Valley Physical Therapy is wonderful ! Jennifer Vonarb, the owner, was a miracle worker.
I was diagnosed with bursitis in my hip.
When pain medication, ice and a cortisone injection neglected to relieve my pain, my doctor recommended Jennifer at Conejo Valley Physical Therapy.
She thoroughly examined and evaluated me. Her diagnosis was that my lower back was out of alignment which originated in my pronated feet.
This, in turn, caused my hips to be misaligned as well! (That whole «every thing’s connected» thing)
She proceeded to work physical therapy «magic» on my legs, back, and hips! After about a month, I could walk without pain and continue to do so!!!
This was accompanied with suggested prevention exercises that I can perform at home!
Her staff is also extremely warm, welcoming and encourage you every step of the way!

8 years ago, I had a traumatic ankle injury requiring surgery to implant a metal plate and to repair all of the soft tissue on the inside of the ankle. That injuy combined with being blessed with completley flat feet has left me with a cronic swollen ankle. My surgeon and 3 others with whom I consulted suggested that I live with it and be happy I can walk. But my ability to do the things I enjoy to stay in shape has been steadily decreasing. I was referred to CVPT by a friend (marathon runner with injuries from time to time) to help with the swelling. I did a three day treatment to reduce the swelling, was fitted for both compression socks and custom orthodics, and taught some basic excercises I can do at home. Jennifer and the staff were both patient and sensitive to my time issues. They got me in and out and were extremely professional. Though my ankle continues to give me trouble, I am significantly better because of the thoughtful care I received at CVPT.

Every few years I have back spasms originating from an old sports injury. When I had my latest bout, I gave CVPT a call and they got me in the next day. They treated the injury over the span of about three weeks until the symptoms were relieved, and gave me exercises and stretches to limit the risk of future reoccurance.
Throughout my care, the staff was always professional, and dedicated to getting me back on my feet. They were extremely caring! It’s for this reason that CVPT has been my wife’s and my Physical Therapy provider for the last several years, and that I have recommended CVPT to my friends and colleagues countless times over.
I should also note that the recovery period from this last set of spasms was a little longer than usual, which prompted me to see an orthopaedic spine surgeon just to confirm that I was on the right track. He reviewed my x-​rays and MRI and confirmed the nature of the injury as diagnosed by CVPT, and confirmed that PT continues to be the best course of treatment for me.
I’m grateful for CVPT!

After not being able to run for a year because of back pain, Jennifer (the owner) was able to fix my back and relieve me of pain! I went to multiple chiropractors and another physical therapist and they were all not able to figure out what was causing me pain. I am now running and working out pain free! Jennifer and Tessa are both very experienced and knowledgable physical therapists who take their time to assess your injury and get you back on track. All of the staff at Conejo Valley Physical Therapy is very friendly and personable. I highly recommend CVPT! They have helped me so much!