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-Donna Grossman

1/10/2016

It is hard to know where to begin to describe Ana-Maria Serrano's attributes. Aside from her credentials, wealth of knowledge and experience, what I find the most outstanding is her dedication and passion for what she does. She imparts the importance of working as a team, determining a manageable treatment plan by - listening, observing, and always encouraging a pace that is comfortable and unique to your needs. She educates and motivates you along the way to see the possibilities of meeting short and long term goals in order to achieve and sustain a healthy life style.  She has taught me so much about the mechanics of the body, techniques to self care, nutrition, and so much more.  I am amazed at how much I have improved and learned under her care in such a short period of time. I am no longer experiencing the pain which initially brought me to her practice. It is such a privilege to continue to receive the support and care that Ana-Maria brings to each and every session.    

Donna Grossman

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- Rochelle Wiener

I have worked with Ana Maria for approximately 1 year now.  She has without a doubt greatly reduced my severe lower back pain

to the point where I am now able to have her work on my lower back with a fair amount of pressure during our therapy sessions

without discomfort; as opposed to not being able to have her even touch my lower back when we started working together.  She

has been a true angel in every sense of the word.  Ana Maria is patient, knowledgeable, and an amazing teacher in terms of how to

perform exercises properly including great stretches to get to particular muscle areas.  I am a devotee and would highly

recommend her!

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 -David Grossman.

This month I am celebrating the one year anniversary of being under the care of Ana Maria Serrano (aka Annie), proprietor of Hygeia Therapies and Spa.  What I am really celebrating, though, is my physical transformation over this period and my increased awareness of how to better care for myself going forward.

I came to Annie with upper back pain and immobility in my neck resulting from straining this area which was left vulnerable after a cervical spine operation 15 years earlier. As successful as the operation was, I was left with decreased mobility in one shoulder and significant muscle atrophy under the shoulder blade; I gave up basketball and tennis, two loves, for all these years.

Through a very methodical and targeted process of weekly neuro-muscular massage and a disciplined regimen of at-home stretching and hydro-therapy, I made incremental progress.  Admittedly, at first, I was skeptical of Annie’s ambitious goals of not only relieving the pain from the recent injury, but also addressing the underlying atrophy, increasing my overall mobility and improving my posture. Progress became more and more apparent over the months; I am

pain free, can fully rotate my head, have almost full mobility in my shoulder and am standing up straighter and taller.  Now my goals are to hit a three-pointer and serve up a blistering tennis ball.

Annie is fully dedicated and attuned to the individual needs of her patients and establishes caring relationships with them.  She brings a strong and varied medical background to her work, having been a professor at a U.S. medical school, consulting and lecturing internationally.

I feel fortunate to have found Annie and hope to continue under her care and guidance for the next 15 years!

 

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-Louisa MClanahan

2/21/2016

Anamaria - here is my "Story of How You Healed Me: When I met Anamaria I walked like a limping gorilla. My boss actually commented on it, much to my horror.  My hips were so painful that I sort of swung my legs forward and walked quickly so neither hip would have to take all my weight for too long. I have rheumatoid arthritis and at that time was having flares every month.  In my very first 90-minute session with Anamaria, she said my muscles were hard as iron.  She worked the muscles and relaxed my sinews so much that I could fully look both right and left without pain for the first time in years.  In the next few months, Anamaria worked a miracle of healing on my joints and muscles.

Within six months she had enabled me to touch my toes without pain for the first time in a decade.  Now, after 18 months, I walk much more easily and without pain.  I haven't had a flare in months, and none that debilitate.  Anamaria is a miracle worker. She is a healer. And I am blessed that she is healing me.

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- Major Michelle A. Fronzaglia, USAF, COANG    

 2/13/2016

As promised! 

 xoxo Michelle 

I’ve been a client of Anna Maria Serrano from August 2013 to the present.  I returned from a 7-month tour of Afghanistan with severe, chronic joint pain, specifically neck, shoulder, back, knees, feet and migraines.  The medical community recommended pain medicine and steroid injections.  Not wanting to take medicine, and tolerant of the short term relief I received from my massage membership treatment plan, I fortunately stumbled upon Anna Maria and her healing hands.  

Due to my pain level I had trouble sleeping at night and focusing at work; migraines and a burning sensation were a constant.  When Anna Maria first met me she immediately recognized that muscle weakness, tension and poor posture habits were adversely affecting any recovery.  In addition to reducing my pain using reflexology and clinical massage, she instructed me on home health preventative measures i.e. stretching, exercises, posture, hydrotherapy etc… She also recommended researching an anti-inflammatory diet.  

I began seeing her once a week for the first 6 months with great results. My migraines and the constant burning sensation I experienced decreased with each visit and the relief lasted longer.   As my pain improved I tapered down to twice a month and then once a month and now, since I’ve relocated, whenever I am in town.  Anna Maria’s vast experience in the international medical realm as physician, toxicologist and consultant lend her a unique skill set and experience.  I am grateful she discovered a passion in pain management and that God gifted her with healing hands and a heart for taking care of her clients. I have recommended her services to 10 of my friends and all 10 have remained in her care.  Anna Maria is an amazing person with a phenomenal talent for healing.  I give her my highest recommendation.  It is worth the personal and financial investment; you will not be disappointed     Major Michelle A. Fronzaglia, USAF, COANG    

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-William Stern.

I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. I’m a great place for you to tell a story and let your users know a little more about you.It is with great pleasure that I provide this testimonial for my liscensed massage therapist, and very good friend, Ana Maria Serrano owner of Hygeia Therapies, LLC. In addition to her vast knowledge of the human body, She attends on-going classes and seminars on a regular basis to increase her knowledge and to maintain current credentials with the regulatory agencies which liscense massage therapists.Because her background also includes a knowledge of toxicology, nutrition, recipe development, medicinal teas and herbs, homeopathic medicinals, holistic care, yoga/stretching, and meditation,  Ms. Serrano has helped me make numerous beneficial lifestyle changes. I am a 68 year old male. My musculoskeletal, osteo-arthritic, diseases are the result of inherited and age related  issues involving vertebrae of the neck, back, shoulders, and knees.  I have had to sleep in a recliner chair for four years, and this has been a major contributor to my postural issues.  Medications have included muscle relaxants, controlled pain drugs, sleep aids, and anti-depressants which are directly related to the chronic pain.
In 2011, a friend referred me to Ms. Serrano and said that she was not simply "another liscensed massage therapist" who barely knew human bone structure, muscles, nerves, and the importance of treating our bodies and minds as an integrated operating system.  In my case, heal the body and the mind will follow.
Our first meeting was similar to someone's innitial visit with a new physician.  In an extended interview, I provided specific details regarding my pain issues, prescribed medications, OTC vitamins and supplements, work and home environment, nutrition, types of exercise and recreation, etc.
My immediate concern was to prepare for rotator cuff surgery in three months, and to strengthen shoulder and back muscles as much as possible and to teach my nerves and muscles, post surgery,  to react to the commands sent from my brain to perform my physical therapy exercises.
About a month after surgery, she was able to employ techniques which ensured that I did not encounter concentrattions of lymphatic fluids and to facilitate the re-connection of nerves and muscle tissue.
Since 2011, I visit a personal trainer two times a week for strength training and Ms. Serrano once a week to release shortened / hypertonic muscles. Together, they have helped me to avoid surgery for spinal stenosis and cervical neck issues.
I consider myself very fortunate to have found a good supportive friend who takes such excellant care of me.

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