Cora Maglaya, PT, ATC, CSCS is a licensed physical therapist, certified athletic trainer and NSCA certified strength and conditioning specialist. She is one of only 10 physical therapists in the country that is Sports Fellowship trained in physical therapy. Prior to joining the team at ADI Rehab, Inc. in Los Angeles, Cora served as a staff physiotherapist for the internationally acclaimed Cirque du Soleil in South America. Her primary role on tour was to perform rehabilitation and emergency management treatments exclusively for the artists. She also served as a certified athletic trainer for the University of Southern California Center for Athletic Medicine and was a staff physical therapist at the University of California, Los Angeles, to name a few highlights. Shortly after the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake, Cora went to Haiti with Island Impact Ministries traveling with a mobile medical unit all throughout Port-Au-Prince in the tent cities and orphanages providing physical therapy care to the earthquake victims.
Her Sports Physical Therapist Fellowship training was completed at Duke University specializing in Division I athletics. She played an active role in the sports medicine team and was involved with many sports programs including the nationally ranked NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Teams. She holds undergraduate degrees in both Athletic Training and Kinesiotherapy from the University of Illinois at Chicago and received her physical therapy degree from Daemen College in Amherst, New York.
Cora is an American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) National Media Spokesperson for Dance Medicine and is as a research committee member for the (APTA) Performing Arts Special Interest Group Section (PASIG). She has been featured in the APTA Perspectives Magazine, the Herald Sun, the APTA Sports Physical Therapy Section (SPTS) Website and the Peter Greenberg Worldwide Website. She is a published author in the North American Journal of Sports Physical Therapy, the APTA Orthopedic Section PASIG Website and the APTA SPTS Website.
She has overcome sports injuries herself and is as a former dance team captain for the nationally ranked University of Illinois at Chicago Dance Team, former dance instructor for the ESPN televised Universal Dance Association and former dance team member for the Chicago Rockers Basketball Team, CBA League.
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