Melissa Pateman

Move RX Performance & Wellness

200-3275 Lakeshore Road, Kelowna, BC, V1P 1N7

Melissa has developed treatment tools and tactics to support her patients primarily through exercise and active rehabilitation. She has experience with work, sport and MVA injuries, as well as pelvic floor and core rehabilitation. Mel makes it a priority to understand each client’s injury, limitations and goals, which in turn helps to develop a treatment plan custom to the client. Often her programming will reflect activities of leisure, occupation or sport. At Move RX, Melissa works synchronously alongside other practitioners to help clients improve their quality of life. Melissa graduated with a Bachelor of Human Kinetics from UBC Okanagan in June 2018. She spent her first year as a Kinesiologist in Prince George working with ICBC, WorkSafe BC and private patients. Additionally, she spent a significant amount of time working with Pelvic Floor Physiotherapists, assisting with both pre- and post-natal pelvic floor remapping and core strengthening. She returned to the Okanagan in 2019 and has continued to optimize her treatments and exercise prescription to get results for her clients. Melissa grew up playing and trying almost every sport, spending a lot of time competing at a high level in swimming, hockey, and volleyball. She currently plays elite senior women’s hockey and is a National-level hockey official. Being an athlete herself, Melissa has struggled with biomechanical patterns in sport. Throughout her experiences with therapists as a youth athlete, she developed an interest in analyzing weaknesses, compensations and corrections in the body. Outside of the clinic, Melissa lives the Okanagan lifestyle. You can find her teaching group fitness, on the lake or hiking with her dog.