Ellicott City, MD Health and Fitness

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At Mount Vernon Wellness, staffers whisk away pain, stress, and other disorders from of the body with soothing acupuncture and massage treatments. Bodies in need of a kneading can undergo a massage and acupuncture package, which can be used together, split into different appointments, or split up into one-second increments for the student body of a local community college. Practitioners eschew needles during the massage, instead slowly stroking muscles to dislodge deep-seated aches and soreness.

From his beauteous, plant-festooned base in the Holland Tack Factory building’s penthouse, guru Josh Kirk marshals a corps of core-crunching fitness experts. Inline Private Training's small class sizes help the tip-top team condition each student with a more personal touch and protect overstrained socialites from having to remember a slew of fellow classmates’ names. The studio furnishes students with mats and equipment, including toning balls, magic circles, foam rollers, and resistance bands. Clients train safely and effectively under a toned tutor's watchful eye, achieving hydra-like flexibility and a core strength to rival the golden apple that broke Hercules' teeth.

Ali True has been an All-American lacrosse goalie, trained Dolph Lundgren, earned a degree in kinesiology, and received Baltimore magazine’s 2009 Best Personal Trainer award. No amount of accolades, however, can replace her passion for educating and training others to lead healthy, fitness-friendly lives. To this end, she left behind her days of celebrity-sculpting to open True Balance Studio, a facility that welcomes students of all levels of health and fame.

Neat rows of black kettlebells sit in front of mirrored walls until one-hour classes fill the gym with grunts of effort and the whistles of kettlebells about to boil over. Standard strength machines sit beside flexibility-boosting climbing frames or gymnastics-style rings suspended from the ceiling. Oscillating between the classrooms and the gym floor, Ali and her trainers coach their clients on cardio equipment, offer nutritional advice, or coax one last rep from straining muscles.

A trained and licensed acupuncturist, Marina Gan seeks to share the same ancient Chinese medicine that has so deeply affected her own life. Marina approaches acupuncture as a partnership between herself and her patients—a collaborative relationship founded with the common goal of identifying and counteracting troublesome imbalances in the client’s body or teetering Jenga tower. After such imbalances have been discovered, Gan goes to work on the grounds of the Ruscombe Mansion Community Health Center, a palatial country home built on the estate of the famous Quaker abolitionist James W. Tyson.

Dr. Dean Kane's pursuit of beauty has led him across the country and beyond. His specialized training in plastic surgery and medicine began at the University of Puerto Rico, then continued with residencies at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore and the University of Florida. Today, Dr. Kane shares his knowledge of plastic and reconstructive surgery techniques with up-and-coming doctors as a clinical professor at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and beautifies patients at his plastic-surgery practice.

From the moment clients enter the couch- and art-adorned waiting room to the time they grapple through the skylight, the attentive staff cater to them with personal attention. Before treatment⎯such as tummy tucks, liposuction, and Botox injections⎯clients consult with Dr. and Lauri Kane to ask questions about procedures as well as outline their beauty goals. Post-procedure, the clinical or operating-room nurse oversees patients through the entire recovery process.