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Your health, your wellness
Mayo Clinic Integrative Medicine and Health offers services for your physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental health and well-being. Integrative medicine is an approach to health care that includes practices not traditionally part of conventional medicine, such as acupuncture, massage, yoga, dietary supplements, wellness coaching and meditation. In many situations, as evidence of their effectiveness and safety grows, these therapies are used with conventional medicine.
Integrative approaches are used to help people with medical conditions — including cancer, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, diabetes and many others — feel better by reducing fatigue, nausea, pain and anxiety. Whether your condition is severe and sudden (acute) or long-term (chronic), your integrative medicine care team works closely with you and your other health care providers to understand and address your needs.
Your experience with Mayo Clinic Integrative Medicine and Health is supported by:
- Experts proficient in many health and wellness practices. Each year Mayo Clinic's integrative medicine experts treat thousands of people with a range of approaches that quiet the mind, soothe the body and restore the spirit. Mayo Clinic is a member of the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health.
- Team-based care focused on you. Mayo Clinic's integrative medicine specialists listen to your concerns. They may suggest therapies that can be built into your comprehensive treatment plan.
- Innovative and evidence-based research. The evidence-based approaches suggested by your care team have been tested for effectiveness and safety. Our experts study and improve practices that help people and work well with conventional medical treatments. Talk with your health care provider about clinical trials of integrative medicine practices that may benefit you.
Services
You may select from a range of services, including stress management and resilience training, massage therapy, mind-body therapies, acupuncture, animal-assisted therapy, aromatherapy, yoga, tai chi, and botanicals and supplements consultation. Availability of services varies among Mayo Clinic locations. Please confirm with your health care provider or when you contact the clinic.
Consultation
During a consultation, you talk with a health care provider trained in integrative medicine and health. Together, you develop a treatment plan tailored to your goals for health and well-being. Your plan may include one or more of the integrative practices available. Bring to this appointment a list of supplements and medications that you take, including doses.
Your health care provider may recommend:
- Acupuncture
- In-hospital animal-assisted therapy
- Aromatherapy
- Dietary supplements and botanicals
- Exercise, activity or mindful movement, such as yoga or tai chi
- Massage therapy
- Health and wellness coaching
- Lifestyle medicine consultation
- Stress management and resilience training
- Mind-body therapies
- Nutrition consultation
- Wellness classes
Stress management and resilience training
Resilience education and training teaches positive strategies for managing stress and developing resilience. The program offers individual or group sessions in the Stress Management and Resiliency Training program.
Massage therapy
Massage therapy may be offered on an outpatient basis or to people who are admitted to the hospital. Mayo researchers have found that this integrative medicine practice can reduce pain, anxiety and tension in people facing or recovering heart surgery, breast cancer, colon surgery and other procedures. Mayo Clinic massage therapists provide massage therapy to thousands of people each year.
Mayo Clinic's massage therapists have sought additional training in techniques such as acupressure, reflexology, mobilization of scar tissue and craniosacral therapy. A board-certified massage therapist works with you and uses techniques based on your needs and goals. The massage therapist may offer other suggestions as well, such as aromatherapy or relaxation resources.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is one of the world's oldest recognized medical therapies. It is a key component of traditional Chinese medicine and embraced by many people, including those who practice conventional medicine, as a safe and effective treatment for many conditions.
You are treated by a doctor trained in acupuncture or a licensed acupuncture practitioner supervised by a doctor. Mayo Clinic acupuncture specialists perform more than 1,400 acupuncture treatments each year.
Techniques include acupuncture with manual and electrical stimulation, acupressure, and cupping. Treatments are tailored to your needs, concerns and diagnosis. Mayo Clinic treatment rooms dedicated to acupuncture have soft music and gentle lighting to help you relax while your practitioner places the needles. A typical acupuncture visit is 45 to 60 minutes.
Mind-body therapies
There are many mind-body therapies, such as meditation, paced breathing, guided imagery, progressive muscle relaxation and biofeedback. These therapies are used to relax and rejuvenate the mind, body and spirit. Many people find that mind-body therapies help them refocus and gain inner peace.
Botanicals and supplements consultation
Botanicals and supplements are marketed and taken like medications but regulated like foods. They can interact with medications and each other, resulting in side effects or suboptimal treatment. During a botanicals and supplements consultation, you talk with a pharmacist who is an expert on these popular products and learn about how their potential risks and side effects might affect your health and well-being.
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Your integrative medicine and health team will talk with you about integrative therapies and approaches that are right for you. Offerings vary among Mayo Clinic locations. Talk with your health care provider about availability of services or confirm when you contact the clinic.
Mayo Clinic has one of the largest and most experienced practices in the United States, with campuses in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota. Staff skilled in dozens of specialties work together to ensure quality care and successful recovery.
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Mayo Clinic has major campuses in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona; Jacksonville, Florida; and Rochester, Minnesota. The Mayo Clinic Health System has dozens of locations in several states.
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Mayo Clinic health care providers conduct dozens of clinical studies every year to learn which integrative medicine approaches work. By identifying effective therapies and bringing them into clinical practice, our researchers help the clinic maintain its leadership position in providing excellent health care for the mind, body and spirit.
Areas of research include:
- Studying integrative medicine treatment in relation to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Advancing integrative medicine practices for cancer patients and their caregivers
- Evaluating the benefits of integrative medicine services for people in the hospital who are experiencing pain
- Using integrative medicine therapies to help people with headaches
- Assessing the benefits of massage therapy for people with breast cancer who are undergoing medical treatment
Read more about Mayo Clinic research in integrative medicine and health.
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Mayo Clinic works with hundreds of insurance companies and is an in-network provider for millions of people.
In most cases, Mayo Clinic doesn't require a physician referral. Some insurers require referrals, or may have additional requirements for certain medical care. All appointments are prioritized on the basis of medical need.
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Please contact your insurance company to verify medical coverage and to obtain any needed authorization prior to your visit. Often, your insurer's customer service number is printed on the back of your insurance card.
At Mayo Clinic's campus in Jacksonville, Florida, massage therapy and botanicals and supplements consults are paid through cash, check or credit card. All other services are billed to insurance.