Ewing, NJ Health and Fitness

Oxford Valley Dental Excellence bills itself as a dental spa. A fountain welcomes patients into the offices, where long, curving walls and blue lights create an airy ambiance. Paraffin hand treatments and hot towels bring the feel of a spa into each treatment room. Patients watch DVDs or listen to music as dentists apply the latest in gentle dental technology—lasers leave less surgical scarring than drills, and SNAP cosmetic-imaging technology predicts the results of cosmetic procedures, leaving the imagination free to continue designing the ultimate playground. A complimentary refreshment bar dispenses drinks and granola bars to massage the teeth of patients on their way in and out of the smile spa.

Synergy Rehabilitation and Chiropractic's doctor of chiropractic Jennifer Grozalis is not only a board-certified chiropractor but also an Active Release Techniques (ART) certified practitioner with a decade of experience. Dr. Grozalis specializes in sports injuries and difficult-to-treat cases that haven't responded to traditional chiropractic manipulation, physical therapy, or soothing lullabies. She also incorporates Pilates equipment into her therapies, using exercises and stretches on the reformer and ladder barrel to enhance ART soft-tissue sessions and adding Pilates mat movements to increase a patient's range of motion during physical-therapy routines.

Dr. Grozalis has assembled a talented team to help facilitate the healing process, including massage therapists and a rehabilitation therapist who is also a certified Pilates instructor. Athletes can also receive performance-enhancement training from pro-football champion and former Philadelphia Eagle Vaughn Hebron.

Gold’s Gym’s staggeringly expansive 65,000-square-foot facility stands as a ziggurat built to fitness. A phalanx of personal trainers—muscles bulging from heaving around armloads of certifications—team up with exercisers, ripping pages from the Total Transformation Training system playbook to handcraft custom fitness routines and practical nutrition plans that help clients to lose weight, build lean muscle, and learn which barbells are for lifting and which are for eating. For a more communal experience, patrons can leap into all manner of group classes, pedaling through spin, limbering muscles in yoga, or tussling with water resistance in aqua classes held in the 25-lap pool. Inside the Cardio Cinema, projectors pipe movies such as Argo and Looper into engaged retinas to infuse bodies with the endurance needed to power through intense workouts.

The fitness emporium also trains athletes in sport-specific or general programs. During performance training, coaches work one-on-one with their charges, focusing on all-around speed and functional movements to forge sportspersons capable of traversing the field faster than an antelope riding piggy-back on a lion.

Campus Eye Group and Laser Center's veteran doctors and consulting ophthalmologists have been addressing ocular needs for upwards of a quarter century, performing more than 100,000 eye-care procedures to sharpen vision safely and precisely. The experienced staff remedies such vision-related maladies as glaucoma, corneal issues, and cataracts, and helps patrons regain unclouded sight like a teacher with a strict no-kaleidoscope policy. Campus Eye Group voluntarily maintains accreditation from the AAAHC to earn each client's trust and confidence in the staff's abilities.

In a career spanning more than two decades, Doctor of Chiropractic Dan Lavanga leads Lavanga Holistic Center's team of therapists and healers to nourish every element of human health. Through a system called the Circle of Wellness, staffers aim to enhance well-being through seven focused facets, including nutrition, stress management, and detoxification, bolstering bodies from every angle like a projectile assault in a vitamin store. The center employs this approach to strengthen statures with a diverse range of services, including targeted-exercise training, life coaching, and PDYoga, which merges meditative poses with techniques aimed at achieving life goals.

Attempting to lose weight can be a challenging experience—one that’s made all the harder when attempted alone. Because they have a deep understanding of these inherent challenges, the counselors and medical personnel of Physicians Weight Loss Centers eschew dieting to-do lists for more interactive programs, taking the programs step-by-step with their clients to foster optimal results. Like a spotter at a gym, the staff keep their clients focused on their goals by hosting behavioral-guidance classes, scheduling personal meetings, and offering encouraging words as they attempt to bench-press the center’s physicians. In medical consultations, physicians chart clients’ personal chemistry and use the collected data to not only draft a healthy weight-loss program with flexible meal plans, but also a maintenance plan to help them keep the weight off.