Tag: dance medicine
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
