Mayo Clinic is expecting a huge turnout this weekend at the Mall of America. <\/p>\n
Clinic staff plan a variety of alternative-medicine offerings today, some of which will be free. <\/p>\n
Dr. Brent Bauer, Mayo Clinic Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program director, said it's an effort to learn what the public wants at the mall. <\/p>\n
\"There seems to be quite a bit of demand there,\" he said. \"It's a nice place to kind of test, and push a little bit, the idea of how do we promote wellness.\" <\/p>\n
Mayo has two storefronts at the mall, one a prototype retail store near the main-floor rotunda, next to the Build-a-Bear Workshop. The other, similar to a doctor's office, is kitty corner from the first. <\/p>\n
The clinical site now includes integrative medicine, which is sometimes called alternative or complementary medicine. Acupuncture, massage therapy and counseling about supplements are included. <\/p>\n
Mayo officials have divulged few details about plans for the mall site.Sports Medicine, Cardiology, Women's Health and Integrative Medicine also provide service at the mall. <\/p>\n
\"Everything we're offering there now, we already offer here on campus,\" Bauer said from Mayo in Rochester.But Mayo plans to branch out to services such as reiki, a Japanese technique of improving patients' energy through hand placement. <\/p>\n
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine says reiki is safe, though research into its effectiveness is ongoing.Patients should \"not use reiki as a replacement for proven conventional care or to postpone seeing a doctor,\" the center says. <\/p>\n
\"We already know how to treat disease very well here,\" Bauer said. \"How do we shift a little bit and also promote wellness equally as well as we treat disease?\" <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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