by Dr. Merrill | Jul 17, 2022 | Accident/Injury

What are you supposed to do after an auto accident? What happens? What are the steps? The first thing is to make sure that your vehicle’s out of the roadway so that there’s not a secondary accident or something else that happens. The second thing you should do is make sure that if emergency medical (…)
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by Dr. Merrill | May 26, 2022 | Exercise, Healthy Living

In 2019, after a long drought, Tiger Woods won the Masters once again. After 14 years, three back surgeries, a divorce, and falling way out of the rankings, he won that tournament. The first thing that everyone wanted to talk about was his willpower. “Oh, this guy’s willpower must be so great. He willed himself (…)
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by Dr. Merrill | May 26, 2022 | Accident/Injury, Guidance

I’d like to clue you in to a piece of who we are and what makes us a little bit different: we don’t take unnecessary x-rays. We’re going to delve a little bit into x-rays here, and why x-rays can be good or not so good. When we say we don’t shoot unnecessary x-rays, what (…)
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by Dr. Merrill | Apr 28, 2022 | Accident/Injury, Pain

Here at Nightlight Chiropractic, one of my favorite patient groups in Orlando is people with disc herniations. I love treating disc herniation patients, especially when I can help prevent them from having surgery. And this happens all the time for us here, where we run across a patient, and we’re able to get them symptom-free (…)
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by Dr. Merrill | Mar 24, 2022 | Guidance, Healthy Living

Have you ever had weird bouts of vertigo or dizziness that happened only when you changed position? You go from sitting to standing. You go from sitting to laying down, whatever it is. You get dizzy for a minute. It takes a minute for it to go away, but you’re fine. Well, that could be (…)
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by Dr. Merrill | Feb 16, 2022 | Accident/Injury

Here in our Orlando chiropractic office, we’ve seen a lot more car accidents recently. As a chiropractor, that’s keeping us busy, but my job here is to keep my patients well. I would much prefer you not to be involved in an auto accident and not have back pain and neck pain. If I’m doing (…)
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by Dr. Merrill | Jan 19, 2022 | Guidance, Healthy Living

As the pandemic began to change everything in 2020, I began seeing some new and different things in my office. We started to see a lot more neck pain, a lot more upper back pain a lot more headaches, and even some weird symptoms like dizziness and tingling into the hands and fingers. And what (…)
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by Dr. Merrill | Dec 15, 2021 | Accident/Injury, Guidance, Pain

In our last blog, we discussed a variety of different shoulder complaints that we do very well at treating here at our Orlando chiropractic office. I want to share a little more about the rotator cuff. First, you need to understand what the rotator cuff is and does. A lot of people use this word (…)
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by Dr. Merrill | Nov 5, 2021 | Accident/Injury, Guidance, Massage, Pain

Let’s talk about shoulder pain. Many people think of chiropractors only in the context of back pain, neck pain, and headaches because we have reams of research that prove that we do very well with these things. But it’s much less well known by the general population that chiropractors can be very effective at treating (…)
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by Dr. Merrill | Oct 21, 2021 | Healthy Sleep

In last month’s blog, Everything You Need to Know About Sleep, we answered some of the sleep-related questions we get here in our Orlando chiropractic office. This month, we’ll get down to brass tacks and analyze some sleep hacks. Sleep Supplements Let’s talk about sleep supplements. Patients always ask me: What can I take to (…)
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