MEET MEREDITH
Dr. Meredith Weiss is a board-certified, Florida-licensed Physical Therapist with over 25 years of clinical experience in outpatient orthopaedics, scoliosis and spinal conditions, vestibular and balance rehabilitation, and Pilates and yoga therapy. She is the founder and director of Kioko, a private, boutique physiotherapy practice in South Florida and the founder of Physiolutions, an online, on-demand platform created to improve global access to Schroth-informed yoga & Pilates exercise classes and evidence-based scoliosis-specific continuing education courses. Meredith is a board certified and FL licensed Physical Therapist with specialty areas in orthopedics, scoliosis & postural dysfunction, vestibular & balance rehabilitation,
and yoga therapy.
With her background in Neuroscience and Psychology from Vanderbilt University, Dr. Weiss earned her Master’s in Physical Therapy from The Medical College of Georgia in 1998 and Doctorate from The University of Michigan-Flint in 2025 where she received the Cindy Pfalzer Horizon Award for her innovative clinical approach and academic and professional leadership in the field of physiotherapy and human movement.
Specific to scoliosis, Dr Weiss is an advanced (C2) certified therapist in the Schroth Method for Scoliosis through the Barcelona Scoliosis Physical Therapy School (BSPTS), a certified SEAS (Scientific Exercise Approach to Scoliosis) therapist through the Italian school of ISICO, and one of only eight teachers in the United States internationally-appointed to teach and certify other physiotherapists in Schroth and PSSE (Physiotherapeutic Scoliosis Specific Exercise) for SSOL-Schroth. She is a second-generation Schroth teacher, having studied extensively and directly under three first-generation Schroth teachers: Manuel Rigo, MD, PhD; Hagit Berdishevsky, PT, DPT, MSPT; and Andrea Lebel, PT.
In addition to her physiotherapy credentials, Dr. Weiss is a Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher (NCPT), an experienced 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT500), and a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT). Driven by her curiosity and commitment to optimizing the patterns of human movement and thought, Dr. Weiss’s specialized expertise allows her to seamlessly integrate the principles of Schroth with the wisdom of yoga and power of Pilates. Her integrative approach is refreshing, inspiring, efficient, and effective, supporting each patient with a truly individualized, prescriptive, whole-person approach. She is the only person in the world to hold this unique combination of expertise, certified at the highest level possible in each discipline.
Dr. Weiss is the author of four published eBooks, a guest on podcasts worldwide and has written and taught original curriculum for more than a dozen continuing education courses. Her unique expertise, singular outcomes, and innovative approach to spine health have established her as a contemporary global leader in the non-surgical, conservative management of scoliosis and spinal conditions.
