The Rehabilitation Medicine Group

Dr Nathan Johns, MBBS FAFRM (RACP)

Founder and Director

Dr Nathan Johns has over two decades of experience as a specialist Rehabilitation Medicine Physician (aka Physiatrist) treating and thousands of patients with pain after surgery.  Understanding the struggle that many people go through with their pain, he developed a passion to improve it.

Dr Johns founded The Rehabilitation Medicine Group in 2013 with a multidisciplinary team focussed on providing an evidence-based program of education, exercise and strategies to treat post-surgical pain.

But as a specialist doctor located in Melbourne, Australia, Dr Johns came to realise that access to the practice and the team’s clinical skills and knowledge was limited by cost, time and place. This led to thinking, what if we can deliver rehabilitation medicine directly to people online?

So over the past 7 years, Dr Johns has been pursuing a PhD at Monash University, a post-graduate doctorate research degree called “Redesigning rehabilitation to treat persistent post-surgical pain“. During this time he has been researching the science of why pain persists after surgery and how to treat it.

This has resulted in the development, design and investigation of Kneed – the first online pain rehabilitation program to treat people with persistent pain after knee replacement.

In late 2024, when the research team launched the recruitment video for the Kneed trial, there was an overwhelming response from people willing to join the randomised controlled trial to test Kneed. We thank those of you who participated in the trial and also thank those who expressed their interest and support.

After we complete the research on Kneed and publish our findings in early 2025, Kneed will be made available to the public!

You can sign up below to be first in line to know when Kneed is live and available.

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