A night of Dance, Medicine, and Dance Medicine

December 10, 2023 What an awesome multidisciplinary panel discussion on a dancer’s ankle sprain – physiatry, orthopedics and rheumatology specialists at the Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine National Capital Region (PARM-NCR) quarterly scientific conference tonight. The case conference discussion ended, and Dance Medicine Philippines was formally introduced to all of us tonight at PARM Mabuhay! […]

How lucky we are to be alive right now!

I’m young, scrappy and hungryAnd I’m not throwing away my shot! Dreams do come true. September 17 to November 26, 2023. Special thanks to the Performing Arts Medicine Association, “understudy” Frances, and the person affiliated with the production who found me. Grateful for the opportunity to have supported the performers from Hamilton Manila tour 2023! […]

Bye, bye piano. End of an era.

Bye bye, piano. End of an era. I was 5 years old when mom and dad bought it in 1980: an investment towards my musical education as we realized piano playing wasn’t going to just be a phase I was going through. Thank you to my first piano teacher Charisse Gonzalez for helping us choose […]

#ASPAH2023 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

November 25, 2023 Made it to Brisbane for the the Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare annual conference. First in-person meeting since 2019, and learning from the pandemic: it’s a hybrid conference that is also available online! As with most formal Australian gatherings, there was a Welcome to Country ceremony from a representative of the […]

That was fun… we’d like an encore, please!

September 30, 2023 Maraming salamat, UP Symphony Orchestra! We enjoyed the collaboration between our university musicians and our Performing Arts Medicine team from the PGH Department of Rehabilitation Medicine in this series of three musicians’ health talks. Dr. Ria Panis and Ms. Florence Culaba (psychologist) talked about ergonomics and mindfulness, respectively, before their Saturday rehearsal […]

Musicians’ Health Series with the UP Symphony Orchestra

Proud of our PGH Department of Rehabilitation Medicine team at today’s musicians’ health series talks with the University of the Philippines Symphony Orchestra! We did a short slide show on optimizing performance followed by a warm-up and stretching regimen in preparation for their Saturday morning rehearsal. Grateful for the opportunity! Read about our first session […]

Symphonic Rides by UPSO

Medical school memory (perhaps in internship year?): I remember walking along Pedro Gil St. towards the College of Medicine’s entrance gates, and talking to forever block mate Lyanna about my future practice in Performing Arts Medicine. In particular, how I would get an “ex-deal” with tickets… get to watch performances for free in exchange for […]

The “M Collaborations”: U.P. Music x Medicine

A mid-August visit to the University of the Philippines College of Music: it felt like coming home! Soon after we launched our series of health talks with the University of the Philippines Symphony Orchestra, I attended a wonderful, productive, inspiring meeting with the College of Music dean, college secretary, faculty members and a music therapist […]

Hello, UP Symphony Orchestra!

(PGH DRM x UPSO) Establishing rapport: hello orchestra, we are the Philippine General Hospital Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and would like to be your physicians. Our team from the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine started our Musicians’ Health Series of short-ish talks this morning with the University of the Philippines Symphony Orchestra. We joined them before […]