Reading, Massachusetts · Since 1999
Health is a choice.
Choose to be Alive & Well.
Chiropractic care and designed clinical nutrition under one roof. We look for what is driving the problem, measure it, and work in the order your body actually needs.
2 Linden Street #101, Reading MA · Mon & Thu 11 to 7 · Tue & Wed 2 to 7
Structure & nutrition, together
Twenty seven years on Linden Street
The same address, the same idea, for 27 years.
Alive & Well has been caring for families in Reading since 1999, when Dr. Anne Marie Marcellino opened the doors with a simple conviction: pain and chronic symptoms are signals, not the whole story. For twenty seven years this office has paired chiropractic care with designed clinical nutrition, because structure and function are not separate problems and treating one while ignoring the other only gets you halfway.
That work continues under Dr. Tony, who brings a Doctorate in Chiropractic, a Master of Science in Applied Clinical Nutrition, and nearly two decades of clinical experience to the same two chairs, the same neighbors, and the same standard.
Two doors into the same practice
Most people arrive through one and end up using both.
Some come in with a back that has stopped cooperating. Some come in with fatigue, weight that will not move, or a gut that has run their life for years. The assessment tells us which door you belong at.
Chiropractic care
Structure first. Then function follows. We start with posture photographs for an objective baseline, adjust with an instrument rather than a manual thrust, and work the sequence rather than a standard schedule.
- Neck pain, back pain and sciatica
- Headaches and postural problems
- Extremities from shoulder to foot
- Repetitive stress and soft tissue work
Nutrition Response Testing
Analysis before answers. A non invasive assessment of how your body is functioning right now and what it is asking for, followed by a program of whole food nutrition built from what your own analysis revealed.
- Thyroid concerns including Hashimoto's thyroiditis
- Weight that will not respond
- Digestive complaints and bloating
- Fatigue, sleep and stress load
The Alive Score
How well is your body truly functioning?
Symptoms, like pain, are the last thing to show up and the first thing to get treated. By the time you feel something, function has usually been slipping for a while.
The Alive Score works backward from that. Instead of asking what hurts, it asks how well your systems are currently doing their job, because that is what determines both how you feel now and how likely you are to get well and stay well.
It takes a few minutes. You answer a series of straightforward questions and get your score. From there, if it makes sense, we will sit down together at no cost and no obligation to talk through what your results suggest and whether what we do here is a fit for you.
Why people call us
Most of our patients have already been somewhere else.
They have a name for the problem and no explanation of what is driving it. These are the concerns we hear most often at the front desk.
If you have been told to live with it and you are not ready to accept that, start with the consultation. It costs nothing and it is honest. Not everyone is a nutritional case and not every problem is structural. Part of what the first analysis tells us is whether what we do here is a fit for you.
Objective, not impressionistic
We measure, then we work, then we measure again.
Progress you can see is easier to trust than progress you have to take on faith. Every tool below produces a number or an image we can compare against later.
Posture photographs
Head position, shoulder height, hip level, rotation and weight distribution. Things you cannot assess in a mirror, captured as a baseline.
Arthrostim instrument
A rapid series of low force impulses instead of a single manual thrust. No twisting, no sudden movement, no cracking sound.
Heart rate variability
The Nerve Express system reads your gas pedal and your brake independently, so we know what your body has to work with.
Nutrition Response Testing
A repeatable, non invasive analysis we can run at every visit to see how your body is responding and what surfaces next.
Blood, stool and breath
Comprehensive panels read against functional ranges, plus stool analysis and breath testing when the gut is the question.
Food sensitivity testing
A starting hypothesis rather than a verdict, confirmed by a structured elimination and a deliberate reintroduction.
Visit us
2 Linden Street, Reading
Suite 101, a short walk from Reading Depot and easy from Route 128 or Main Street. Parking is on site.
| Monday | 11:00 to 7:00 |
| Tuesday | 2:00 to 7:00 |
| Wednesday | 2:00 to 7:00 |
| Thursday | 11:00 to 7:00 |
| Friday | Closed |
| Saturday and Sunday | Closed |
Start with a number, not a guess
Remember. Health is a choice. Choose to be Alive & Well.