Category: Rehabilitation Medicine
Posts about Rehabilitation Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Physiatry)
62. Busy with Virtual Choir and Vocal Changes (Bizz-y, VC, VC)
Our medical school class is putting together a music video as part of our homecoming celebrations next year – 2024 will be 25 years since we graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Medicine in Manila. The song accompanying the video was arranged in four voices for choir: soprano 1, soprano 2, alto […]
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! […]
Support PAMA, support me! (and our efforts to build Performing Arts Medicine in the Philippines)
A few weeks ago, the Performing Arts Medicine Association (PAMA) asked me to write a bit about my experiences with PAMA and how it has enriched my life in Performing Arts Medicine. They used a snippet for social media (no, that is not me in the photo!), but here is my entire treatise… enjoy! Grateful […]
Cross-posting: blog post from the Philippine-American Physiatrist Association (PAPA)
Here is something I wrote for Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month, originally posted on PAPA’s website, papaorg1975.com. To access the blog post, click here, or just keep on reading. This also marks the first social media post with my new professional headshot! Many thanks to PAPA for having me as part of their Ask a […]
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 […]
9th Annual Balik-Scientist Convention
September 27, 2023 Today’s (out of of town) event: 9th Balik Scientist Program (BSP) annual convention. Arrived at the convention center Tuesday the 26th, did a dry run of the presentation, had dinner with local relatives in the Angeles City area. To refresh your memory: I received a Balik Scientist Program award grant for a […]
First day of clinic: look, I match the wall!
I suppose that’s a good sign, right? After leaving the clinical world in 2019 for a 2-year expensive and soul-searching sabbatical + 1 year of health issues + easing back into medicine after that year through teaching duties… here I am! Outpatient clinic every Thursday afternoon. May consider doing Tuesday afternoons too, if needed. But […]
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 […]
