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 services need to show up on the scene, they’ve been notified so that all parties can get treated with emergency services if they need to be treated. The rest of it is kind of secondary. Yes, you need to contact an attorney. Yes, you need to contact your insurance company, but not necessarily in that order. Yes, you should contact a chiropractor. We do great work with soft tissue injuries. We do great work with spinal injuries. Let a chiropractor assess your spine to... Continue Reading
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 that means is that not every single patient who walks in the door is going to get an x-ray. There are some chiropractic clinics out there where, if you walk in the door and want to get treatment, step one is that you need to get an x-ray. I’m not saying that that’s a bad thing, but that’s not how we practice here. Some patients come in and they have neck pain or lower back pain, which is usually a common neck or back... Continue Reading
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 without having to go through any surgery. We want to keep them off the narcotics. We want to keep them from having that surgery. And I bet you right now, you’re thinking about that person you know, whether it’s your friend, your family member, maybe just some acquaintance you met one time that’s struggling with a disc herniation. They were told, “You have a disc herniation, and you have one option: surgery. Do you want it, yes or no?” I’m trying to say that... Continue Reading
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 my job well, my goal is to prevent some of that. Because we’re seeing lots of car accidents these days, so I wanted to dedicate this video to avoiding and reducing injury from auto accidents. I don’t know if it’s because of the traffic, the road construction going on here in Orlando, or what it is. But, literally, almost every day, somebody new comes in after suffering from an accident. How to avoid a car accident First, you’ve got to focus on the road... Continue Reading
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 completely wrong. I hear rotator cup a lot—rotator cup, like a cup of coffee. I don’t know what people are hearing when we’re saying this stuff, but the rotator cuff is four muscles that come across from your back across, and they all insert into your shoulder. These muscles allow you to move your arm out and in, and they are very easy to injure. Everyone thinks these are big, healthy muscles or big, thick muscles. Actually, they’re teeny, tiny strips of muscle that... Continue Reading
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 shoulders. CAUSES OF SHOULDER PAIN When we discuss shoulder pain, understand that, much like back pain, there are a lot of different causes. Your shoulder pain may not be like any of the types we will cover here. It is essential to get a correct diagnosis from your medical doctor, chiropractor, and physical therapist before you begin any treatment programs. The shoulder is a complex collection of joints, muscles, and connective tissues designed to have extra range of motion compared to our hips, but... Continue Reading
