About Motion Matters Physical Therapy and Wellness

The clinic that treats the cause.

Most clinics manage your symptoms and call it a plan. We built this place to end them: one-on-one, with a licensed physical therapist, every single visit.

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Our Story

This isn’t our story. It’s yours.

Natalie Johnston, MPT, owner and founder of Motion Matters Physical Therapy and Wellness

Natalie Johnston, MPT, Fellow in Pain Sciences, Lifestyle Medicine Certified, Founder

Natalie is an advanced clinical practitioner with over 24 years of physical therapy experience. She has worked across a wide variety of PT settings, which lets her meet most physical therapy needs, but her specialty is chronic and complex pain.

As a Therapeutic Pain Specialist and Pain Fellow, she has taken a deep dive into evidence-based pain science. She is equipped to help patients understand pain and reclaim control over their pain and their wellness goals, rather than just treating a symptom.

She brings an advanced understanding of the mind-body connection. Her 500-hour yoga instructor training and trauma-informed yoga certifications let her teach patients to self-regulate their nervous systems, blending traditional medical approaches with holistic ones. The people who do best here are the ones who fix things: their houses, their teams, their families. This is where they finally fix the thing they’ve been putting off: themselves.

“We are redefining healthcare by seamlessly integrating conventional medicine with holistic approaches, empowering you to take charge of your own well-being.”

What We Believe

Four things we’ll never compromise.

Your hour. Not shared.

No techs bouncing between rooms, no handoffs mid-visit. Just you and a licensed physical therapist, the whole time.

Cause first. Symptoms follow.

You’ve probably chased the pain itself before and never found why it started. We find the why, then the ache stops coming back.

Plans end. That’s the point.

You shouldn’t need a punch card. Every plan comes with a graduation date, so you always know how close you are.

You’re not a protocol.

Your job, your body, your goals: that’s what your plan is built around, never pulled from a generic sheet.

The Difference

Not your typical clinic.

A typical clinic

  • You explain your pain to a different aide every visit
  • Your hour gets split with two other patients
  • The same pain creeps back in a few months
  • No graduation date, just book again next week

Motion Matters Physical Therapy and Wellness

  • One-on-one with a licensed physical therapist, every visit
  • Your full hour, uninterrupted, every time
  • A cause-first evaluation before we treat anything
  • A plan with an endpoint, mapped out on day one

Feel the difference in your first visit.

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The Team

The people behind your recovery.

Natalie Johnston, MPT, owner and founder of Motion Matters Physical Therapy and Wellness

Natalie Johnston, MPT

  • MPT
  • Fellow in Pain Sciences
  • Owner + Founder

24 years in practice and a Fellow in Pain Sciences. Chronic and complex pain is not a sideline here, it is her stated specialty.

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Dr. Adam Janowski, PT, DPT, PhD, physical therapist at Motion Matters

Dr. Adam Janowski, PT, DPT, PhD

  • DPT
  • PhD

Earned his PhD at the University of Iowa studying chronic fatigue and chronic pain syndromes, then stayed for a postdoctoral fellowship in chronic illness.

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Dr. Alex Furtado, DPT, CPPC, physical therapist at Motion Matters

Dr. Alex Furtado, DPT, CPPC

  • DPT
  • CPPC

A decade in orthopedics, sports PT and pelvic health in New England, plus training as a birth and postpartum doula.

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Rooted in North Liberty

This is our neighborhood too.

We’ve been treating North Liberty for 24+ years: your neighbors, your teammates, your kids’ coaches. The mom who’s been pushing through it so nobody else has to worry? She’s probably on our schedule too. Recovery is a lot more personal when it’s local.

  • North Liberty
  • Coralville
  • Iowa City
  • Tiffin
  • Solon
  • Swisher

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Ready when you are.

Request a time and a real person calls you back. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.

  • Hours Mon-Fri: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
  • (319) 382-2743 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
  • No referral needed in Iowa

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