Lacey Township NJ Red Light Therapy

Red light therapy for Lacey, NJ

Lacey is the longest drive we list: 35 minutes up the Parkway from exit 74 to our Howell studio. Here is what is waiting at the other end of it.

Off-peak drive

35 min

Rush hour

46 min

The way there

Garden State Parkway south to exit 74

Garden State Parkway north from exit 74 at Lacey Road, thirty-five minutes of open highway that moves well most of the time and badly on summer Fridays, when the whole shore is coming the other way.

Thirty-five minutes, and we are not going to dress that up

Lacey is the furthest town on this site from the studio. From exit 74 at Lacey Road you are on the Garden State Parkway for most of the trip and then off it into Howell, and off-peak that is thirty-five minutes of steady, dull highway. It is a deliberate journey. Anyone driving it from Forked River or Lanoka Harbor has already worked out that it is a trip and decided to make it, and we would rather write for that person than pretend the studio is nearer than it is.

What the bed is

One NovoTHOR whole-body unit in one room, booked by the slot. You lie in it for under twenty minutes while red and near-infrared light covers you completely. It is FDA-cleared for temporary relief of minor muscle and joint pain and muscle spasm, and for increasing local blood circulation.

The people who make this drive come from a township built around water — the marina on the Forked River, the bay, boats hauled and launched twice a year — and they mostly arrive with shoulders and lower backs that have been asked to do a lot. That is squarely the ordinary wear the bed is for.

Neighborhoods and areas within Lacey

Barnegat Pines

Lake Barnegat, one of Lacey Township's four beaches, has its swimming area on Lakeside Drive in Forked River. The playground at Gille Park, first built in 1996 with the Rotary Club of Forked River, was replaced in 2020.

Murray Grove

Murray Grove in Lanoka Harbor is traditionally held to be the birthplace of Universalism in America. John Murray preached his first American sermon here in 1770, in a meeting house Thomas Potter had built for the purpose ten years earlier, and the twenty-acre site now holds the Potter Memorial Chapel and a retreat center.

Questions from Lacey

Is Route 9 north any faster than the Parkway from Lacey?

No. Route 9 through Bayville, Toms River and Lakewood is a traffic light every half mile. The Parkway from exit 74 is the whole point of the trip being thirty-five minutes rather than an hour.

What is the drive like on a summer weekend?

Northbound on a Friday afternoon you are going against the beach traffic, which helps. Sunday evening is the opposite and the Parkway backs up around the Toms River exits. Saturday mornings are clear.

Nobody drives thirty-five minutes on a whim. What do people come back for?

Mostly the same two things: soreness and stiffness that stopped resolving by itself, and sleep. Those sit inside what the bed is cleared for. If you are hoping for something outside that, the drive is not going to justify itself and we would rather say so now.

Are there early appointments so I can get out before the Parkway fills?

There are morning slots, and from Lacey they are the ones worth taking. Call and we will tell you what is genuinely open rather than what the booking page shows.