Melissa Manning, PT, Cert MDT, Cert DN is the owner of Manning Physical Therapy, LLC. She grew up in north central Pennsylvania but has lived in NC since 1996. Melissa earned a Bachelor of Health Science and a Master of Physical Therapy at Slippery Rock University (1994). She was inspired to become a physical therapist after suffering a traumatic knee injury in an ATV accident in her senior year of high school. She was able to successfully rehab her knee and go on to play collegiate volleyball due to the help of her physical therapist. She enjoys helping people get back to doing what they love to do after an injury. She has worked in several practice settings in her 29 years focused on orthopedic/musculoskeletal therapy. She has been the owner of Manning Physical Therapy since 2014, providing contract services for state facilities. She has worked in onsite manufacturing settings offering physical therapy and ergonomic assessments to reduce and prevent work injuries, as clinic director and staff therapist in outpatient clinics, and inpatient orthopedic rehab setting treating acute post-surgical rehabilitation.

Melissa became certified in the McKenzie Method of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy in 2001. It made so much sense to have a systematic approach to evaluation and treatment of the spine and extremities. It takes into account patient history, movement examination, patient response to movements and positions to determine the source of pain. Often times, extremity pain is of spinal origin. You have to rule that out first before just treating the area of pain or you may be treating the wrong body part. For example, often times shoulder/scapular pain is referred pain from the neck. It is exciting to usually see significant reduction in symptoms upon the first visit.

She uses this approach to assess every patient initially and continues to reassess each visit to make sure the treatment approach is working, readjusts as necessary. Melissa has also taken advanced training in dry needling, ergonomic work assessments, telehealth, therapeutic exercise and manual therapy.

Melissa and her husband, Jason, have two teenage sons. She enjoys spending time outdoors with family, waterskiing, snow skiing, kayaking, paddle-boarding, and cycling.