Taught by clinicians in the trenches
Dr. Michael Longyear and Dr. Dominic Fetterly are clinicians who manage complex neurological cases every week.
Dr. Michael Longyear
DC, DACNB, CCSP
Clinical Director at Brain Optimization Institute and a board-certified chiropractic neurologist.
Dr. Longyear’s work starts with his own case. Paralyzed by a football injury his sophomore year of high school and told he would never walk again, he used the prognosis as fuel and walked out of the hospital a month later. None of his doctors ever settled on a consistent diagnosis, so he went looking for one himself.
That search led him to Parker University, where he studied chiropractic and graduated valedictorian. He went on to study functional neurology, psychology, and functional medicine.
Before moving to Jacksonville to open the Brain Optimization Institute, he was Director of the NeuroLIFE Institute at Life University, treating complex neurological conditions other practitioners had given up on, taking part in research on concussion and depression, and designing and teaching programs for doctors around the world.
Dr. Dominic Fetterly
DC, DACNB
Clinical Director of the NeuroLIFE Institute at Life University and a board-certified chiropractic neurologist.
Dr. Fetterly came to neurology through his own injury list. Multiple concussions in childhood and in sport left him with questions about brain health and function, and those questions led him into chiropractic functional neurology and neurological rehabilitation.
He grew up in Toledo, Ohio, and earned a Bachelor of Science in athletic training at the University of Toledo, working as a neurological rehabilitation technician at the University of Toledo Medical Center while he studied. He completed his Doctor of Chiropractic at Life University alongside training with functional neurologists and internships including the NeuroLIFE Institute, and earned his board certification through the American Chiropractic Neurology Board in 2018.