by Dr. Merrill | May 23, 2023 | Healthy Living

Here on our blog, I talk about the everyday things we see in our practice, and many of the videos I do are more about a rabbit hole that I chased down here recently. And this was this is a weird one. Have you guys ever done that and chased down a rabbit hole? Typically, (…)
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by Dr. Merrill | Apr 25, 2023 | Guidance, Healthy Living

You may be wondering why a chiropractor would be writing about kidney stones. Here at Nightlight Chiropractic, we don’t treat kidney stones, but we see a lot of kidney stones here. And we know these kidney stones because back pain is the most common presenting complaint. So a patient comes in, they say, I’ve got (…)
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by Dr. Merrill | Mar 26, 2023 | Healthy Living

I am always listening to the news so I can bring you interesting things that are happening in the world of health and wellness. When I heard this piece, I went from a sense of nostalgia, maybe almost to horror within the course of just a couple of different sentences. One of the big stories (…)
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by Dr. Merrill | Feb 23, 2023 | Guidance

I went across the street to an antique bookstore the other day, and I grabbed myself a copy of Hippocrates’ works from about 2,500 years ago. There’s a chapter called articulation where Hippocrates talks about joints, articulations and spinal traction. So we’ve been using this for a long, long time. The father of modern medicine, (…)
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by Dr. Merrill | Jan 18, 2023 | Guidance, Healthy Living

Here at NightLight Chiropractic, we are always asking our patients about the types of things they want to learn about in our video and blog series. A while back, you decided on the topic of ADHD and brain exercises that you can do to reduce the symptoms. We’re excited to share some of the research (…)
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by Dr. Merrill | Dec 19, 2022 | Guidance

Here at our Downtown Orlando office, we are pleased to be able to assist many Orlando-based transportation workers with their Department of Transportation (DOT) physicals. To make the process easy for you, today we’re going to cover with you precisely what you need to do to have the best chance of passing your DOT physical. (…)
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by Dr. Merrill | Nov 25, 2022 | Guidance, Healthy Living

Here at our Downtown Orlando chiropractic office, we get a lot of questions regarding CBD oil and supplements. On today’s blog, we’ll talk about why you should or shouldn’t be taking it and what it does. Why is it important, and why is everyone talking about it? Let’s start with this: there isn’t enough research (…)
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by Dr. Merrill | Oct 12, 2022 | Guidance, Healthy Living

One question we get a lot here at our Orlando chiropractic office is whether or not chiropractic is safe for pregnant patients. For a long time, we’ve been seeing a lot of pregnant patients. At any given time, some of the 5,300 patients that we’ve seen over the past 10 years will come in with (…)
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by Dr. Merrill | Sep 14, 2022 | Guidance, Healthy Living

Here at Nightlight Chiropractic, we’re here not to help not only your spine but your overall wellness. Every once in a while, I will go combing through it because the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has all kinds of topics that are relevant to you. Why is it relevant to you? Because you eat food, (…)
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by Dr. Merrill | Aug 15, 2022 | Healthy Sleep

Dreams, safety, and schedules. Those three topics are actually really connected, and if you haven’t ever thought about how those three things might be connected, this blog post is for you. At our downtown Orlando chiropractic office, we often get asked about sleep-related topics like dreams, so we’re here to offer a research-backed perspective on (…)
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