Category: Rehabilitation Medicine
Posts about Rehabilitation Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Physiatry)
Hiraya: Diplomate Oath Taking Ceremony of the Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine Specialty Board
Today’s stamp of approval from the Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine Specialty Board. Now board certified in physiatry (rehabilitation medicine) in the USA and the Philippines. What a journey it has been! With much thanksgiving to God, family, friends, mentors, colleagues and all. Note: “Hiraya” is an ancient Filipino word for “the product of one’s […]
Nutrition for Dancers at Artists en Pointe Dance Studio
On Saturday morning January 11, 2025, Dr. Ma. Carissa Abelita (Doc Issa) and I were very grateful for the opportunity to give a talk titled Nutrition for Dancers: Myths and Facts. Doc Issa is in her last year of specialty training in Rehabilitation Medicine at the Philippine General Hospital. I half-jokingly said I was the […]
Music and Health Workshop with the Strings and Chamber Music Department
The Philippine General Hospital Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Performing Arts Medicine team held a Music and Health Workshop with the University of the Philippines College of Music Strings and Chamber Music Department on November 26, 2024. Such a fun afternoon of learning about keeping musicians healthy and preventing injury. Our department faculty and resident physicians […]
Dance and Music Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease
Today’s event (November 27, 2024): honored to be part of the Movement Disorders Module focusing on Parkinson’s Disease at the national meeting of the Philippine Neurological Association. Very grateful for the opportunity to share how dance and music can help our patients with mild to moderate Parkinson’s Disease. #physiatry #dancetherapy #musictherapy #rehabilitation #parkinsonsdisease #pd #neurology
Older Adults and the Built Environment
Mini-thesis from 2021, now finally an actual published journal article. This narrative review was written in my final semester at the Australian National University’s Master of Culture, Health and Medicine degree program. The draft was revised several times in preparation for publication. Very grateful! View the article here: https://doi.org/10.47895/amp.v58i20.8512Or here: https://actamedicaphilippina.upm.edu.ph/index.php/acta/article/view/8512This is part of a […]
Cross-cultural Healing and Ancestral Practices Panel at the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (AAPMR) annual assembly
Cross-cultural healing and ancestral practices panel: We talked about bringing biomedicine + “other medicine” together = integrative medicine. 1 hr and 15 mins was not enough, people stayed for more discussion after we formally ended. Wow! Many thanks to colleagues on the panel: Drs. Glendaliz Bosques, Irene Estores, Deborah Bernal, Zainab Al Lawati, and Monica […]
PARM VIS x PAMANA PH in Cebu
Thank you very much to the Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine Visayas Chapter PARM Visayas for featuring dance medicine and science this weekend. PAM Advocates National Association of the Philippines (PAMANA PH) was excited and honored to take part in your 43rd Scientific Meeting on October 4-5, 2024 – our first event as a special […]
Experiential Learning with Adult Ballet Class
PGH Department of Rehabilitation Medicine tries out ballet for experiential learning, hosted by NFJ Ballet Alabang at their adult ballet class last weekend. Here we are on their website. We are grateful for the experience and now we understand our dancer patients much better now. During class, it was obvious which of us had previous […]
Team Philippines in London: Performing Arts Medicine Association 42nd International Symposium
Late post: July 19, 2024 This morning at the Performing Arts Medicine Association (PAMA) International Symposium. Go go go Philippine General Hospital Department of Rehabilitation Medicine #performingartsmedicine poster team! Special shout out to Dr. Frances Carlos for doing the 3-minute presentation at the Poster Parade, talking about our experience with the UP Symphony Orchestra, UP […]
Music and Movement Therapy Forum
A recent Neurology Grand Rounds, a forum on music and movement therapy at which none of the speakers were neurologists Grateful to the Philippine General Hospital Department of Neurosciences for the opportunity last June 26, 2024! I spoke on the benefits of exercise, dance and music on mild to moderate Parkinson’s Disease. Dr. Popkin is […]
