Hi, I'm Dr. Melissa Miller

I believe that when you feel supported you are able to make positive changes toward living a more fulfilled life in a resilient body that moves freely and without pain. I invite you to open your mind to new ideas around movement and how the body functions; find room in your life for play; and embrace the positive changes that take place during our work together. This support comes in the form of manual therapy and mobility training. I have an everlasting love and curiosity of the human body that I want to share with you!

All bodies are capable of healing! My intention is to help you learn how your body works, how to reduce pain, mitigate injuries, and most importantly be able to perform the activities that bring you the most joy. Activities range from being able to take a walk or play with your child to taking a month long backpacking trip without pain. I strive to inspire you to make the mundane tasks of life like doing the dishes, cleaning your house, and walking from place to place more fun and exciting! As a result, your movement practice and those tasks become intertwined, requiring less “exercise” time needed and leaving more time for fun!!!

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Education

Doctor of Chiropractic
New York Chiropractic College 2013

Bachelor of Science in Nursing
University of Vermont 2009

Certifications & Trainings

Certified in Functional Range Assessment®
Functional Range Assessment® is a measurement based assessment system that provides objective measures of people’s movement capacity for every articulation.

Certified in Functional Range Release® - Lower Limb and Spine
Functional Range Release® technique is a comprehensive system of soft tissue assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation. FR® does not only function to treat injuries, it is also used to improve the quality of a persons movement, as well as to promote joint health and longevity.

Certified Restorative Exercise Specialist
Nutritious Movement™ is a whole-body movement program that utilizes Movement Micronutrients and Macronutrients and habitat (lifestyle) changes to nourish all trillion of your body’s parts. The bending and squishing of your cells that happens when you move is an input—just like dietary nutrients. Cells respond directly to mechanical input through mechanotransduction. Nutritious Movement is a program that offers Micronutrients (corrective exercises, to help mobilize any sedentary spots brought about by years of being casted by modern habitats) and Macronutrients (larger categories of movement like walking, squatting, carrying). Katy Bowman is the founder of Nutritious Movement™. With radical, science-based health directives, Katy has taken the health-and-wellness world by storm with her bold “exercise is not movement” platform. A biomechanist by training, she has helped thousands reduce chronic pain, increase bone density, and improve metabolic health through better movement. Katy is the bestselling author of multiple books. Whole Body Barefoot (2015), Move Your DNA (2014), Alignment Matters (2013), Every Woman’s Guide to Foot Pain Relief (2011), Don’t Just Sit There (2015), Diastasis Recti (2016).

Certified Functional Range Conditioning® Mobility Specialist
FRC is a comprehensive joint training system. The three main goals of FRC are mobility development, joint strength and body control. This technique can be used for rehabilitation as well as every day conditioning.

Certified Movnat Level 2 Instructor
MovNat is a physical education and fitness system based on the full range of natural human movement abilities. These include the locomotive skills of walking, running, jumping, balancing, crawling, climbing, swimming, lifting, carrying, throwing and catching.

Certified Applied Kinesiologist
Applied Kinesiology (AK) is a system that evaluates structural, chemical and mental aspects of health using manual muscle testing combined with other standard methods of diagnosis. AK is a non-invasive system of evaluating body function. The combined terms “applied” and “kinesiology” describe the basis of this system, which is the use of manual muscle testing to evaluate body function through the dynamics of the musculoskeletal system.

Professional Experience

Founder and owner of Nuravita
Ithaca, NY
Providing Chiropractic care and movement education 2013 - Present

Science Instructor
Fingerlakes School of Massage
Kinesiology and Anatomy and Physiology teacher
2017-2018

Registered Nurse
Visiting Nurse Service of Ithaca and Tompkins County
Home care, start of care nurse 2017-2018

Registered Nurse
INOVA Mount Vernon Hospital Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation
2016-2017

Registered Nurse
Allied Rehab Hospital Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation
2013

Yoga and Pilates Instruction
Various locations around the US 2009-2017