Rehabilitation Medicine Education for Clinicians
The Rehabilitation Medicine Group helps clinicians develop clearer frameworks for pain, recovery, function, participation and rehabilitation leadership.
Our clinician education translates rehabilitation medicine, research and clinical experience into practical teaching for specialists, trainees and multidisciplinary rehabilitation teams to support stronger clinical reasoning, communication, team leadership and rehabilitation decision-making.
For clinicians who want to deepen their understanding of rehabilitation medicine
Many patients struggle when pain persists, recovery slows or scans do not explain the severity of symptoms. RMG clinician education focuses on the language, frameworks and clinical reasoning needed to help patients understand what is happening and participate actively and more confidently in rehabilitation.
Rehabilitation Medicine Gold
Rehabilitation Medicine Gold is a free weekly email for trainees, consultants and clinicians who want to think more clearly about rehabilitation medicine. Each issue develops practical clinical reasoning, communication and leadership frameworks for rehabilitation practice.
Coming Soon - Kneed 4 Clinicians
As demonstrated at the Rehabilitation Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting (RMSANZ 2026 in Darwin in July), Kneed4Clinicians is being developed to help clinicians explain and manage persistent pain after knee replacement using a rehabilitation medicine framework.
It adapts the Kneed program into an AI-supported clinician education program, with pain education, consultation language, clinical reasoning, quizzes and practical communication tools.
Patient Programs to Support Rehabilitation
The RMG patient programs are designed for people whose recovery has not followed a straightforward path. They are not replacements for clinical assessment, but structured education and self-management programs that may support rehabilitation once serious or surgically remediable causes have been considered.
They can be used independently or parallel to clinical care to support clinicians in explaining and reframing pain, in developing safe exercise plans, in medication management, goal setting, sleep and relaxation.
A digital pain rehabilitation program for people with persistent pain post-knee replacement. Kneed is our foundational program researched in a pilot randomised controlled trial. Once surgical causes of pain have been excluded, this self-management program provides pain and medication education and helps guide participants through exercise, stress reduction, desensitisation (motor imagery) with easy to understand information, video, audio and quizzes.
Spined is a digital pain rehabilitation program for people with persistent non-surgical back pain and for those with persistent pain following spinal surgery. Spined is a research-informed program adapted from the rehabilitation frameowork underpinnning Kneed that supports self-management. Pain and medication education reframing allow participants to make sense of and utilise exercise, stress reduction, desensitisation (motor imagery) and skill development with easy to understand information, video, audio and quizzes.
Grounded in Rehabilitation Medicine Research
The RMG programs and clinician education are grounded in Dr Nathan Johns’ clinical experience, PhD research, peer-reviewed publications and ongoing work translating rehabilitation medicine into practical education.
