This clinic
Pure Wellness Newark
550 Stanton Christiana Rd Ste 302, Newark, DE 19713. This is the founding Pure Wellness office — not Silverside Road in Wilmington and not a walk-up on Main Street Newark.
Pure Wellness of Newark opened in December 2012 on Stanton Christiana Road. Dr. Eric Marks and a dedicated team of doctors have served this New Castle County community for years with chiropractic, massage, acupuncture, injury rehabilitation, and advanced therapies including shockwave.
The clinic sits near the intersection of Routes 4 and 7, which makes it the practical home base for Newark, Bear, Glasgow, Pike Creek, Ogletown, and University of Delaware families. Care here is built around a full exam, a clear report of findings, and a plan you can actually keep.
If you have been bouncing between prescriptions and rest with no lasting change, this office is set up to find the mechanical reason — joint, disc, nerve, or muscle — and treat that, not a generic “back pain” label.
Established December 2012. Founded by Dr. Eric Marks near the intersection of Routes 4 and 7.
UD students, Christiana shift workers, Bear and Glasgow families, prenatal patients seeing Dr. Renaud, and people recovering from auto or work injuries.
What is available in this building is chiropractic, acupuncture, massage, spinal decompression, and shockwave in this building. That list is deliberately specific — Pure Wellness offices are not identical, and if your exam points to a therapy we do not have here we will tell you which clinic does rather than substituting something close enough.
The rest of Pure Wellness is at purewellchiro.com. The other four offices are in the footer.
Before your first visit
What actually happens when you walk in
Your first appointment here runs 60 to 90 minutes, and most of that is not treatment. It is history, orthopedic and neurological testing, measured range of motion, and a hands-on examination — because “my back hurts” describes a facet joint that has stopped gliding, a disc pressing on a nerve root, a sacroiliac joint carrying uneven load, and a muscle guarding an old injury equally well, and those four do not get the same treatment.
At the end of it you get a plain explanation of what the exam found and what we propose to do about it, including roughly how many visits we expect it to take. If the findings point somewhere outside chiropractic — imaging, a physician, an emergency department — you will hear that instead. Referring out is part of an honest exam, not a failure of one.
Bring photo ID and your insurance card. If you have had recent imaging, bring the report or the disc. If the problem started with a car crash or an injury at work, say so when you book: those visits are documented to a different standard and need more time on the schedule than a routine first appointment.
Follow-up visits are much shorter than the first one. That matters more than it sounds, because chiropractic works on frequency rather than on one dramatic session — the clinic you can realistically get to two or three times in a bad week is the clinic that will help you most.
Getting here and parking
We are in the professional building at 550 Stanton Christiana Road, Suite 302 — not the street-level retail strip. Come in off Routes 4 and 7, park in the complex lot, and follow signs for Suite 302.
First visits run 60–90 minutes. If you are coming from Christiana Hospital, the mall corridor, or UD campus, this is the closest Pure Wellness office. Call (302) 365-5470 if the suite numbers feel confusing on the first trip.
If the building numbering is confusing on arrival, call (302) 365-5470 from the lot rather than circling. The front desk knows exactly which door people miss.
Hours at this office
These hours are specific to Newark and are not the same across Pure Wellness. Monday–Thursday 8:00am–12:30pm and 2:30pm–6:00pm, Friday 8:00am–1:00pm, Saturday by appointment. Check them before you drive, especially at the start and end of the week.
- Monday – Thursday8:00am – 12:30pm, 2:30pm – 6:00pm
- Friday8:00am – 1:00pm
- SaturdayBy appointment
- SundayClosed
Who you will see
Dr. Eric Marks, D.C.; Dr. Joelle Renaud, D.C., ICCSP; Dr. Jessica Cortellino, D.C.; Dr. Justin Dietrich, M.S., D.C.. Having more than one doctor in the building means a treatment plan does not stall when one of them is out, and it means you can be matched to the technique your case actually calls for rather than the only one on offer.
Results we publish
This office has 209 treatment outcomes recorded on ChiropracticResults.com, an independent register that logs the condition treated, the pain score at intake, and the score at discharge. Across those documented cases the average improvement is 90%, with pain moving from 6.8/10 to 0.6/10.
Averages describe other people’s care and are not a promise about yours. We publish them because a number you can check on a site we do not control is worth more than an adjective we picked ourselves.
Walk through Newark
Walk the Newark office before you arrive: waiting room, treatment bays, and the suite layout at 550 Stanton Christiana Road.
Questions about Newark
Where do I park at the Newark office?
Park in the lot for 550 Stanton Christiana Road. The clinic is Suite 302 in the professional building. If you cannot find the suite, call (302) 365-5470 and the desk will walk you in.
Is Newark open on Saturday?
Saturday is by appointment only. Weekdays are 8:00am–12:30pm and 2:30pm–6:00pm, Monday through Thursday, and Friday 8:00am–1:00pm. Call to hold a Saturday slot before you drive.
Does Newark have shockwave?
Yes. Newark is one of three Pure Wellness offices with shockwave, along with Wilmington and Smyrna. Acupuncture and massage are also in this building.