On this edition of Focus on Your Health, I’m visiting with Dr. Mary Jurisson from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Jurisson works in physical medicine and rehabilitation—and she’s a tai chi instructor.
We discuss her perspectives on medicine, tai chi, and how these two disciplines converge.
“Even if your enemy is the wind, and that’s what’s knocking you down,” she says, “it might be that a certain approach to walking is one which consumes less energy. And so you might be able to walk more without requiring pumping more blood and sending more oxygen. If you can have the most economical way to walk and still be stable, you have that result that you want, which is maintaining or increasing your function, without having more resources.”