 I'm Amy Gretzmacher, a licensed massage therapist at Hackensack Meridian Integrative Health and Medicine. Anybody can really benefit from massage. Whether you have chronic pain or you're dealing with stress or you just need to hit the refresh button, we want to increase the circulation so the muscles can absorb healthy blood and nutrients. Because massage therapy is so personalized, it really does complement an integrative health plan. If a patient is seeing our psychologists for anxiety, massage is a really great addition to that treatment, because I can utilize other types of relaxation techniques to help decrease anxiety. As far as the five pillars go, I feel that massage really fits under the activity pillar. It increases the endorphins that make us feel really good and helps circulation. Massage therapy also fits under the resilience pillar. It helps with stress management. Massage management really decreases the cortisol levels that are bad for us and make us feel stressed. I'm very passionate about massage therapy because it's helped me so much in my own life and I think about that every time I work on somebody. So I feel very passionate about helping people.