Traditional medicine is taking notice. Montage Health recently completed a Healing Touch pilot program and it was so popular, it has now been added to the list of support programs offered to patients.

The program features a therapy horse named Muffin, who is helping to break the ice and start difficult conversations about drug awareness and recovery resources.

When she was starting her Healing Touch massage therapy business in Rochester as a single mother on April 1, 1987, Mary Jo Majerus was inspired, in a way, by a local business leader. "When I first ...