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! […]

A Holistic Approach to Dancer Wellness

That’s a wrap! Thank you World Dance Alliance Singapore for having us speak about the holistic approach to Dancer Wellness today, January 23, 2022 (Asia). Optimizing dancer health needs to address the physical, emotional and mental aspects of health – while you can focus on just one aspect, we must recognize that all of these […]

Performing Arts Medicine Infographics

Performing Arts Medicine #infographics from ballet dancer and #physical therapy student Anika Margarita Ramiro, summarizing how physical therapists (physiotherapists) can keep performing artists healthy. As the mnemonic says in the second photo… BRAVO 🙂 (brava, Anika!) #rehabilitation #PT She references two presentations by myself and Dr. Renald Ramiro, and the paper I co-authored with Dr. […]

Face-to-Face Dance Classes during COVID-19 Pandemic

I co-authored a “how-to” guide for #COVID19 safe practices in the dance studio. Happy to see our journal article published but #vaccine and normalcy can’t come soon enough. Dr. Filomar Tariao and I were classmates in medical school (from the INTARMED program). We both ended up in arts-related careers… him being more in the arts […]