This clinic
Pure Wellness Smyrna
699 S Carter Rd Suite 5, Smyrna, DE 19977. This is Suite 5 off Route 13 — the Saturday-morning Pure Wellness office — not Dupont Highway in Dover and not Ash Boulevard in Middletown.
Pure Wellness of Smyrna opened in November 2009, directly off Route 13 on South Carter Road. Dr. Ken Decker and the Smyrna team have been serving this corridor since 2008 with chiropractic, massage, acupuncture, and injury rehabilitation. Shockwave therapy is available here.
Smyrna sits between Dover and Wilmington, which means the clinic sees plant workers, highway commuters, farm and warehouse bodies, and families who want one office for kids and grandparents.
Drs. Shane Hierlmaier and Mark Mauragas round out a three-doctor bench with Dr. Decker so you are not stuck if your primary doctor is in treatment or on a later hour.
Established November 2009. One of the original Pure Wellness clinics, off Route 13 on South Carter Road. Care in the Smyrna area dates to 2008.
Kent County families, Route 13 commuters, workers’ compensation patients with Dr. Mauragas, and people who have been with Dr. Decker for decades.
What is available in this building is chiropractic, acupuncture, massage, spinal decompression, and shockwave, with three doctors rotating so you are not stuck if one is in treatment. 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 at 699 South Carter Road, Suite 5, directly off Route 13. Look for Suite 5 in the professional complex — not a storefront on the highway itself.
Smyrna is the office with Saturday morning hours (8:00am–11:30am). Weekdays break for lunch. First visits still run 60–90 minutes, so do not squeeze a new-patient exam into a 20-minute Saturday gap without calling first.
If the building numbering is confusing on arrival, call (302) 389-8915 from the lot rather than circling. The front desk knows exactly which door people miss.
Hours at this office
These hours are specific to Smyrna and are not the same across Pure Wellness. Monday–Thursday 8:00am–12:30pm and 2:30pm–6:00pm, Friday 8:00am–12:30pm, Saturday 8:00am–11:30am. 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 – 12:30pm
- Saturday8:00am – 11:30am
- SundayClosed
Who you will see
Dr. Ken Decker, D.C.; Dr. Mark Mauragas, D.C.; Dr. Shane Hierlmaier, 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 211 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 8.3/10 to 1.1/10.
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 Smyrna
Walk Suite 5 on South Carter Road in 3D — the Route 13 clinic with Saturday morning hours, acupuncture, and shockwave.
Questions about Smyrna
Which Pure Wellness office is open Saturday?
Smyrna has Saturday hours from 8:00am to 11:30am. Newark can do Saturday by appointment. Wilmington, Middletown, and Camden are closed weekends unless the desk tells you otherwise.
How do I find Suite 5?
Turn off Route 13 onto South Carter Road. We are in the 699 complex, Suite 5. If the numbering is confusing, call (302) 389-8915 and the front desk will spot you.
Is shockwave in Smyrna?
Yes. Smyrna offers shockwave, acupuncture, massage, and chiropractic — the same bench as Newark, with a three-doctor rotation so you are not stuck if your primary doctor is in treatment.