Month: March 2025
Injury Prevention at Artists En Pointe Dance Studio
Third in a series: today Dr. Ria Mikhaella Panis and I visited Artists En Pointe Dance Studio once again in Alabang, Muntinlupa for the much anticipated talk on Injury Prevention, after January’s Nutrition for Dancers and February’s Dance Anatomy presentations. BRAVA Doc Ria, for delivering a comprehensive but very easy to understand presentation via hybrid […]
Musika at Ginawa (Music and Comfort): Holistic Health for Music Teachers and Students
Musika at Ginhawa (Music and Comfort): a two-day symposium focusing on the holistic health of tertiary level pre-professional musicians brought to you by the University of the Philippines College of Music and the PGH Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. The first day (Monday, March 17, 2025) was for an audience of music teachers in the UPCMu […]
Medical Humanities Elective, third edition
The third offering of the Introduction to the Medical Humanities elective for graduating medical students is in the books! Very grateful for St Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine – William H. Quasha Memorial for letting me design this course in which we all immerse ourselves in how medicine and healthcare are portrayed in arts […]
Clinic Now Open to the Arts and Letters Cluster!
Yesterday was our first clinic with an expanded population serving the University of the Philippines Diliman Arts and Letters Cluster – the Colleges of Human Kinetics, Fine Arts, Media & Communication, Arts & Letters and of course our host, the College of Music. We had patients from 3 of the colleges so I guess that’s […]
Dance-specific Physical Therapy (Physiotherapy) Collaboration… Woohoo!
This past week, my Rehabilitation Medicine colleague Dr. Ria Panis and I met up with En Pointe Health and Wellness Center owner and physical therapist (physiotherapist) Arlene Mackinlay. We are grateful to have finally met Arlene in person, after connecting through Dr. Mandy Zhang, a Singaporean physician colleague who specializes in sports medicine and performing […]
