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Our patients tell us that the quality of their interactions, our attention to detail and the efficiency of their visits mean health care like they've never experienced. See the stories of satisfied Mayo Clinic patients.

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    Orthopedic expertise powers Tom Brown's epic trek

    When people retire, they often plan to spend more time with their grandkids, or on activities like volunteering, gardening, traveling and hobbies. Christine Brown came up with something far more epic. After thinking about what she and her husband, Tom, enjoyed doing together, she proposed that they spend the next five years hiking the 2,190 miles of the Appalachian Trail (AT). Stretching from Springer Mountain, Georgia, to Katahdin, Maine, it's the longest hiking-only trail in…
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    Dad walks daughter down the aisle despite ALS

    Paul Wennmacher and his daughter Tabetha Paul Wennmacher calls his daughter Tabetha "my backbone." So it was tricky to keep a secret from her. His plan: Walk Tabetha down the aisle at her wedding. It wasn't an easy task. Paul, of Belvidere, Illinois, has a slowly progressive form of Lou Gehrig's disease, a progressive nervous system disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, causing loss of muscle control. But with the…

  3. Wrap-around rehab reaps results

    It was May 25, 2021. After Tom Lansing of Stewartville, Minnesota, mowed his mom's yard, the then 59-year-old decided it was a perfect late afternoon for a motorcycle ride. So he revved up his Harley Davidson Ultra Classic and pulled onto the country road in front of his house. A little more than a mile later, going highway speed, Tom collided with a car that crossed into his path at an intersection. A nearby resident…
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