Long Branch Red Light Therapy | NovoTHOR in Howell

Red light therapy for Long Branch, NJ

NovoTHOR whole-body red light therapy for Long Branch, NJ. One bed, one room, by appointment, inland from Pier Village via Route 36 and Route 33.

Off-peak drive

28 min

Rush hour

40 min

The way there

Route 33 east, Route 35 north, Route 36 east

Route 36 away from the ocean and then Route 33 inland is unremarkable nine months of the year, and from late June it is the same road as everyone trying to reach a beach.

Summer changes this drive more than it changes most of the others on this site. From Labor Day through to May you are looking at a straightforward run inland on Route 36 and Route 33. From late June you are sharing those roads with everybody trying to get to the water, and the difference is real enough that we would rather say so here than have you find out on the day.

The people who book from this direction split roughly two ways. There are the ones coming off the boardwalk and Seven Presidents Oceanfront Park having run further than they meant to, and there are the ones who have been on their feet all day at Monmouth Medical Center or in the West End and want twenty minutes lying down with nothing asked of them. The bed does not know the difference. It is fifteen to twenty minutes of red and near-infrared light, cleared for temporary relief of minor muscle and joint pain and for increasing local blood circulation, and you drive home afterwards as normal. First visit takes about forty-five minutes because we talk first.

Neighborhoods and areas within Long Branch

East Long Branch

Pier Village stands on the site of the old Long Branch Pier at the foot of Laird Street. Ulysses Grant called Long Branch the nation's summer capital in 1869, and seven presidents spent time in its resorts between the 1860s and the 1930s.

Elberon

President James Garfield died at Elberon in September 1881, in an oceanfront cottage reached by a rail spur that local residents laid in under a day. The Garfield Tea House on Ocean Avenue was built from those railroad ties after the track was torn up.

North Long Branch

Seven Presidents Oceanfront Park covers thirty-eight acres of beachfront on Ocean Avenue North, on ground that once held a row of Queen Anne cottages built in the 1890s by Nate Salsbury of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show.

West End

Brighton Avenue runs inland from the ocean through the shops and restaurants of West End, and West End Park sits near the corner of Brighton and Ocean Avenues. The avenue fills with antique cars every August for the West End Cruise Night.

Boroughs and places next to Long Branch

Monmouth Beach

The Monmouth Beach cultural center occupies United States Life Saving Station No. 4, built in the 1890s and the oldest public building in the borough. It reopened in 2018 after a fire and now runs art shows and historical exhibits through the year.

West Long Branch

The Monmouth University campus is at West Long Branch, built around the 1927 Shadow Lawn mansion, a 130-room National Historic Landmark raised for the president of the F. W. Woolworth Company. It was renamed the Great Hall at Shadow Lawn in 2020.

Questions from Long Branch

Does the drive get worse in summer?

Yes, and there is no point pretending otherwise. Route 36 and Route 35 carry beach traffic from late June to Labor Day, and Friday afternoons are the worst of it. A weekday morning appointment misses nearly all of it.

Is parking as bad as it is around Pier Village?

No. Cherry Tree Plaza is a surface lot on Route 9 with spaces in front of the door, and there is no meter, no garage and no fee.

Is this useful for training, or only for aches?

Both, and recovery is the more common reason people give us from Long Branch. The bed is cleared for temporary relief of minor muscle and joint pain and for increasing local blood circulation, which is the honest description of what it does after a hard week.

Can I come after work?

Tuesday and Thursday we are open until six, which is the practical option if you are finishing a day in Long Branch or Red Bank. Monday, Wednesday and Friday we close at half past five.