Tag: performing arts medicine
Performing Arts Medicine
July 2025: Adventures in Academia, USA Edition
A productive (but tiring) trip to the USA. Whew! Conference #1 of 2: (Please don’t) Break a Leg: an Introduction to Performing Arts Medicine. Ran a little over time because I asked the audience to stretch after sitting through 60 minutes of lectures from other people. But they needed it! Grateful for the opportunity to […]
Dancing the Afternoon Away with Experiential Learning and Wellness
Our Philippine General Hospital Department of Rehabilitation Medicine did some experiential learning last Friday, coupling two short talks on dance with ballroom dancing. We started with a talk from physiatrist and lifelong dancer Dr. Ria Panis, who brought her dance + medicine expertise with an introduction to dance medicine. I followed this with a “rehearsal” […]
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 […]
Musika at Ginawa (Music and Comfort): Holistic Health for Music Teachers and Students
Musika at Ginhawa (Music and Comfort): a two-day symposium focusing on the holistic health of tertiary level pre-professional musicians brought to you by the University of the Philippines College of Music and the PGH Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. The first day (Monday, March 17, 2025) was for an audience of music teachers in the UPCMu […]
Clinic Now Open to the Arts and Letters Cluster!
Yesterday was our first clinic with an expanded population serving the University of the Philippines Diliman Arts and Letters Cluster – the Colleges of Human Kinetics, Fine Arts, Media & Communication, Arts & Letters and of course our host, the College of Music. We had patients from 3 of the colleges so I guess that’s […]
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 […]
The Society for Strategic Education Studies National Conference 2025 (S4SES: Ehs-for-sehs)
I enjoyed the last two days (Februrary 27-28, 2025) at the Society for Strategic Education Studies National Conference at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts in Diliman, Quezon City. The theme for this year’s S4SES (prounounced “ehs-for-sehs”) was “Enhancing Cultural and Arts Education with Critical Discourse on the Interface of Ecological Issues, […]
Sinag: the Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine (PARM) Annual Conference
PAMANA PH represent! After last year’s session on dance medicine, we are grateful for the opportunity to shine the spotlight on musicians this year during the Performing Arts Medicine track at the Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine (PARM) and ASEAN Rehabilitation Medicine Association joint convention in Manila. The three talks on the performing voice by […]
Dance Anatomy at Artists En Pointe Dance Studio
What muscles are you using during a plie? A releve? If you know what a plie and a releve are… this talk is for you! Suitable for dancers of all ages, their family members and teachers. Even if you don’t know what these French terms mean, you’re invited to join dancer and rehabilitation medicine physician […]
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 […]
