Meredith Drake, PT, DPT, NCS

10/16/2025

friends! Come see me and talk with me at !

06/14/2025

Ataxia Sailing Day! Thanks to for working so hard to make sailing accessible to all!

11/24/2024

Thank you for a great weekend course! These thoroughly enjoyed it! 🚶🚶🚶🚶🚶

09/29/2024

Our multi-d team enjoyed a great course this weekend with ! Thanks for all the learning and laughs!

09/17/2024

September 25th is International Ataxia Awareness Day!

To celebrate, the Ataxia Center is having a restaurant fundraiser at in Columbia.

If you are in the area, please consider dining in or ordering takeout from Tino’s on Monday, September 23rd from 11am- 9pm. The Ataxia Center will receive 10% of all profits raised if you show or mention the promotion!

04/05/2024

Tomorrow! I'll be presenting for with Dr. Sumner and Dr. Mukherjee-Clavin and the rest of the JHH CMT Team!

12/07/2022

In October, I gave a lecture on exercise in with the as part of their MG Symposium. The lecture is free on YouTube - check it out!
https://youtu.be/_ty3cAeMQ0U

11/16/2022

The terrible truth I deliver to my patients on the daily...

09/02/2022

🔊 CALL FOR COMMENTS 🔊

Power Elevating Seat Height (PASH) is a feature that can be added to power wheelchairs to allow users access to upper cabinets, bar tops 🍻, and to be able to be eye level with others.

It is currently not considered "medically necessary" and thus not covered by CMS.

There is obviously a huge improvement in functional ability and quality of life for people who use this feature! Unfortunately it is expensive, so very few can actually get it.

A few organizations, like and recently offer grants for coverage, but most power wheelchairs users have to go without.

If you think it's BS that accessing your full home, being eye level with peers and your environment, and being able to socialize are considered "not medically necessary," please take a moment to go to
👉 rise4access.org 👈
and submit a comment.

11/08/2021

Part 2 of the podcast is posted!

Check it out if you're interested in rehab post-cerebellar stroke.
https://nogginsandneurons.podbean.com/e/heim-drake-millar-cerebellar-ataxia-part-2/

11/05/2021

Jenn Millar (an amazing PT who works in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Ataxia Clinic) and I sat down with Peter and Deborah of the Noggins & Neurons podcast to discuss rehab after cerebellar stroke. Stephen Heim joined us - he's a critical care nurse who brings the unique perspective of a healthcare provider who had a cerebellar stroke. He gives wonderful insights!

Link if you want to give it a listen:👂
https://nogginsandneurons.podbean.com/e/heim-drake-millar-cerebellar-ataxia-part-1/

This is part 1 - part 2 to come!

10/02/2021

There is still time to sign up for our basics of MS rehab course on Saturday 10/9! Taught by Alexius Sandoval, MD, Carleigh Dabritz, OT, Victoria Pavelko, SLP, and myself. PT is pretty full, but we do still have room, and there are plenty of spots left for OT and SLP.

$25 for 4 contact hours of CEUs (for PT and OT) and 100% of proceeds go back to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society

FREE for students! Email Emily Reilly to sign up as a student (her email is in the link below):

We mobilize people and resources to drive research for a cure and to address the challenges of everyone affected by MS.