Dr. Maria V. Pirraglia is a board-certified specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR), also known as Physiatry. The medical specialty of Physiatry embodies the practice of restoring function and optimizing performance after injury or illness. Dr. Pirraglia earned her medical degree from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Her rehabilitative training was very broad, encompassing the management of patients recovering from high-performance athletic injuries, spinal cord injury, orthopedic and spine surgery, stroke, cardiac events, cancer, and serious burn injuries, as well as neurodiagnostic assessment. Dr. Pirraglia is an experienced electromyographer proficient in the performance of electromyography (EMG) and nerve conduction studies (NCS) used to diagnose and monitor patients suffering from cervical and lumbar radiculopathies, repetitive strain syndromes, such as carpal tunnel and cubital tunnel syndromes, and to evaluate symptoms of acute pain, numbness, tingling, muscle spasm, weakness, atrophy, or loss of coordination.