Red light therapy for Spring Lake, NJ
Twenty-one minutes from Spring Lake to a whole-body NovoTHOR bed in Howell, out Route 71 and Route 524. What the drive and a session involve.
- Off-peak drive
- 21 min
- Rush hour
- 31 min
- The way there
- Route 524 east, Route 71 north
Route 71 south to Route 524 and west into Howell, twenty-one minutes on roads that stay civil even in August, because Spring Lake has never sent much traffic anywhere.
Every Memorial Day weekend the borough absorbs several thousand runners for the Spring Lake Five and then, more or less, goes back to being itself. Summer does not really happen to Spring Lake the way it happens to Belmar: the boardwalk has no arcades and nothing to buy, the beach requires a badge, and the streets in August are recognizably the streets of February. It also means the drive west to Howell is one of the more predictable on this list — twenty-one minutes off-peak, about thirty when everyone is coming home.
What you are driving to
A single NovoTHOR whole-body bed, and under twenty minutes lying in it covered head to foot in red and near-infrared light. What it is cleared for is short and specific: minor muscle and joint pain, muscle spasm, local blood circulation.
The people who come from here tend to be walkers and runners — two miles of boardwalk and the loop around Divine Park will do that to a town — and they arrive with the wear that repetition on hard flat ground produces. Book ahead; there is only the one bed.
Questions from Spring Lake
- Do you get runners in after the Spring Lake Five?
- We do. Post-race soreness sits squarely inside what the bed is cleared for. If you want a slot on the Sunday or Monday after the race, book it well before race weekend rather than the morning after — there is one bed and it fills.
- Is the drive different in summer from Spring Lake?
- Barely. The town does not take day trippers the way Belmar and Point Pleasant Beach do, so Route 71 and Route 524 stay usable through August. Ten minutes added at rush hour is the honest number, season or not.
- Is there parking at the studio?
- A free lot directly in front. Cherry Tree Plaza is a strip plaza on Route 9 south, so you pull in, park and walk about twenty feet. No badge, no meter, no permit.
- Can two of us come in together?
- Only one person can be in the bed at a time, so you would book two consecutive slots and wait for each other. Plenty of couples do exactly that and it works fine — just tell us when you book so we hold both.
Also serving near Spring Lake
Clients travel to the Howell studio from across this part of the shore. These are the closest areas we write about, with the straight-line distance from Spring Lake.
21 minutes from Spring Lake
2350 Route 9 South, Cherry Tree Plaza, Howell, NJ 07731. Free parking at the door.