Meet Melinda

I am a wife, mother of two daughters, physical therapist, fitness and nutrition enthusiast, and a lover of baking and enjoying the seasons (especially Fall….and Christmas). Looking back on my journey, it is clear that I was meant to be an ambassador for the scoliosis community.
For over 15 years, I specialized in treating infants with torticollis—a neuromuscular condition defined by postural asymmetry. Later, when I began working with cheerleaders, I quickly noticed an alarmingly high incidence of scoliosis in that population. Alongside this, my nearly 20 years of experience treating patients with both acute and chronic back pain revealed another pattern: many of those patients had undiagnosed scoliosis driving their symptoms.
Day after day, my schedule was filled with individuals of all ages experiencing postural asymmetry. Yet, scoliosis was the diagnosis I felt the least equipped to treat—not because my patients symptoms didn’t improve, but because I lacked the tools to truly change the trajectory of their curves. At the time, I didn’t fully understand the complexity of scoliosis.
That changed when scoliosis touched my own family. My youngest daughter’s diagnosis turned what was once a professional challenge into a personal mission. From that point forward, I was determined to dig deeper, learn more, and create a path of hope where so many had been told, “there’s nothing you can do.”
This journey, driven by my work as as cheerleading specialist and a scoliosis momma, led me to develop Biofunctional Pattern Integration (BPI)—a method that uses functional movement, motor learning, and sensorimotor integration combined with two decades of hands-on clinical practice for superior performance.