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. Looking forward to more collaboration in […]

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 […]

Ballet Weekend and Dance Medicine with ABAP

Thank you very much to the Association of Ballet Academies, Philippines, Inc. (ABAP) for having us at their first Dance Convention held at St. Paul College Pasig! We had a session on dance injury and prevention (so much to discuss… we ran overtime) and another on first aid/emergency preparedness for ballet studios. Then we learned […]

Backstage Pains: TV UP Webinar #191

Four weeks ago I was the “side dish” to Dr. Dave Dizon’s main entree, a talk on back pain on the University of the Philippines’ internet television channel, TV UP. Yesterday it was my turn to be on the virtual stage (pun intended, thanks to host Dr. Raymond Francis Sarmiento) in webinar #191, discussing one […]

Launching PAM at PARM 2024

Late post, because there was a lot going on this past weekend and we’re all still recuperating. The Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine’s (PARM) 34th annual convention from February 22-25 started off with a Research Day on the 22nd, showcasing the latest research studies, case reports and poster presentations from the seven training institutions offering […]

Performing Arts Medicine Clinic Goes Live!

February 10, 2024. Lunar new year (year of the wood dragon). Today I got to do what I set out to do in medical school: have a clinic exclusively for performing artists. Could not have done this without the support of many, many people across the years – grateful to them, and to God who […]

PAM Clinic + Lunar (Chinese) New Year… we’re open anyway!

28 years after discovering Performing Arts Medicine in medical school, this is a dream come true! Thanks very much to UP Kolehiyo ng Musika, UP College of Medicine and PGH Department of Rehabilitation Medicine for making this happen. We did not realize we were opening on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which […]

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 […]