Services
NWA Physiatry provides physician-led Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) care for individuals whose injuries, illnesses, neurologic conditions, or musculoskeletal problems affect mobility, comfort, independence, or daily activities.
Clinical Focus
Physiatric care is centered on how a medical condition affects your ability to move, work, and participate in daily life—aligning evaluation and treatment around functional independence.
Physiatric assessments focused on identifying functional limitations, establishing meaningful recovery goals, and developing tailored rehabilitation plans. Care includes mobility evaluations, wheelchair assessments, orthotic and prosthetic recommendations, therapy optimization, and active coordination with the broader care team.
Physician-led rehabilitation care addressing functional deficits resulting from stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury, Parkinson's disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Cerebral Palsy, and associated conditions such as neurogenic bowel and bladder. Care focuses on mobility, functional independence, and participation in daily life.
Clinical evaluation and management for muscle tightness, increased tone, and dystonia related to neurologic illness or injury. Care includes goal-directed contracture prevention, pharmacologic interventions, and botulinum toxin injections when clinically indicated.
Diagnostic evaluation and nonoperative management for joint pain, tendinopathy, and myofascial pain syndromes that impair comfort, movement, or daily activities. Management includes clinical assessment, trigger point identification, and trigger point injections when clinically appropriate.
Evaluation following amputation, including prosthetic prescriptions and ongoing prosthetic management. Dr. Drake also evaluates concerns associated with long-term prosthetic use, including residual limb skin irritation, wounds, associated pain, phantom limb pain, and phantom limb sensation.
Continuity of physiatric care for patients transitioning home after hospital stays or acute inpatient rehabilitation. Consultations focus on evaluating functional recovery, adjusting therapy plans, assessing ongoing mobility or equipment needs, and supporting next-step rehabilitation planning.
Interventions
When conservative measures need targeted medical support, Dr. Drake utilizes selected outpatient interventions to address abnormal muscle tone, focal myofascial pain, and other confirmed rehabilitation needs when clinically appropriate.
Targeted intramuscular injections for the management of focal spasticity, abnormal muscle tone, and dystonia when clinically appropriate to address comfort, mobility, positioning, and ease of care. When clinically appropriate, treatment may include botulinum toxin products such as Botox®, Dysport®, Xeomin®, and Myobloc®.
Focal injections performed when clinically indicated for identified myofascial trigger points contributing to localized pain syndromes, muscle tightness, and functional limitation.
Medication management may be used when clinically appropriate as part of the treatment of spasticity, abnormal muscle tone, dystonia, and phantom limb pain.
Clinical assessments and prescriptions for bracing, orthotics, prosthetic components, and assistive devices tailored to each patient's functional mobility goals.
Team-Based Care
Physiatry is inherently collaborative. Dr. Drake works alongside physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, primary care physicians, and medical specialists to help coordinate medical and rehabilitation goals.
While therapy disciplines deliver direct hands-on rehabilitation, the physiatrist provides medical leadership—evaluating underlying neurologic and musculoskeletal concerns, recommending targeted interventions or medications when appropriate, evaluating equipment, and refining functional goals as recovery progresses.
Dr. Drake works collaboratively with therapists, primary physicians, specialists, patients, and families to help align care around practical, patient-centered functional priorities.
What We Treat
Explore our What We Treat page for an overview of diagnoses, symptoms, and functional challenges commonly evaluated and managed at NWA Physiatry.
Facility Partnerships
NWA Physiatry provides dedicated PM&R consultation models for skilled nursing facilities and healthcare organizations seeking on-site physiatric support.
Reach out to NWA Physiatry with general questions about our rehabilitation services.