Kaiser Permanente Oakland Physical Therapy Department

May 2025

Excellent help from Shuai in improving my balance and stretches to stop my leg cramps. She had more exercises than I expected.

She is personable, I felt comfortable with her.

Nov 2023

I came here to get my staples removed. This place was very easy to find. It was in the department that did my surgery, Did you know that Oakland Medical Center is a major cancer treatment center? People come from all over for treatment.But I came here, signing in was fast enough and I waited. Unfortunately, they don't use a numbing cream for staple removal and I'm a baby when it comes to pain. Only six of the staples hurt while they were being removed.The doctors from my department were all fantastic as well and I was hoping to see them. I was grateful to meet Nurse Robyn and I know that she was as careful as she could be when removing the staples.I really love their communication and them actually listening to me and what I was saying, and more importantly, that they believed me. It's hard to trust someone who insists on telling me what I'm feeling and what's going on in my body. I appreciate the agency that I had here to speak my truth and be heard. It really helped in the healing from a major surgery.

Sep 2023

I have to give Kaiser Oakland Medical Hospital a well deserved 5 star review despite what I read in Yelp and other reviews. First off, my Kaiser spinal injection Doctor, Dr Dutta was first to recognize how serious my spine eaves were being cutoff by the internal stenosis via a video call on August 2, 2023. She told me to drop everything and proceed to Oakland Medical Hospital and go to the ER to be admitted as she will arrange the internal call procedure for admission. She saved my life, respectively because everyone else thought I just had severe arthritis in my hips. However 2 days later, I was admitted into the Oakland hospital via ER, had an emergency MRI in depth, and they found my Spine with its curvature was being constricted to a point of leg paralysis on one side. Next thing, I learn is there are super caring nurses in the ER and on the 8th floor for post surgical patient. Dr Huang and team did the surgery on my spine and had me in surgery for about 6-8 hours. I may look like a Frankenstein body all sutured up along my 18-inch scar and fused my spine with 2 titanium bars and 12 screws. Surgery on a Friday 8am and discharged on Monday afternoon. My poor spouse had to now take care of me 24/7 but the nursing staff on the 8th floor were exemplary and knew all their names. I sent them a large bouquet of flowers and chocolates as a post -surgical thank you gift for taking excellent care of me, 24/7. A big shout out to Dr Huang and his PA staff as they were were all top notch in taking care of me. One PT staff member who forced me to rehab after a day post surgery (Cheryl), she is a pistol in not taking any crap from me and her A-type personality kept me in stitches, literally. Overall, 5 stars in ER, Nurses, Surgeons, Doctors and PT were all best in class of dedicated medical personnel. Kudos.. Kaiser Oakland Spinal team.