Emerald Waves Chiropractic Center

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Emerald Waves Chiropractic Center

Dr. Daya Viviano Simms (Dr. Taelor) serves the Emerald Coast with gentle, nervous system focused chiropractic care. Facilitating healing.

Building connection & community 🌞 Fort Walton Beach’s 2024 Best Chiropractor 🏆

03/28/2026

I will be out of the office April 6-10 for my own healing but will be in the office Monday- Friday the week before and week after to make up for lost time 🩵 As always, I’ll be doing my phone free Fridays so make sure you get on the schedule ahead of time for a Friday visit 🩵

03/23/2026

This is a topic that comes up a LOT in my office. How do we deal with people, especially family members, that aren’t safe? These are my thoughts, solely my thoughts, but I hope they can help 🫶

03/19/2026

Have you heard of meninges!? They’re kind of our jam!

03/16/2026

Are you ready to increase the good & decrease the bad, all without cracking or pills!? We’ve got your back 🤗 Text waves to 850-329-0902 to stat your journey!

03/11/2026

Hey friends! It’s been a while so I wanted to do an introduction post 🤗 I am Dr. Daya and this is my husband David. (My name was Taelor Viviano but since getting married I’m changing my first and last to Daya Simms!) I grew up in NY with a big, wonderful family. I went to Keystone College in Pennsylvania for my Bachelor’s in biology with a minor in chemistry. After that I moved to South Carolina where I attended Sherman College of Chiropractic for my doctorate. During chiropractic school, I spent my nights and weekends in seminars, mastering my adjusting techniques. The last year of chiropractic school I was an adjunct professor at Spartanburg Methodist College where I taught labs in chemistry, meteorology, and physics. After graduating and finishing my last semester teaching, I moved to the beautiful Emerald Coast in 2019 and I’ve never looked back! I was introduced to David in January 2025 and we got married May 15th, 2025. He was working at the Marina Cafe in Destin and now he works as the facilities manager at Destiny Worship Center in Fort Walton Beach, which we love! In our free time, we are often found at church, leading and attending different small groups. The joy of our life is serving and walking with the Lord! I love to crochet and craft and David can often be found cooking, at the shooting range or sitting in the lobby talking with my patients like a counselor 🤣 We like playing board games like mancala and scrabble and love spending time with our doggies and taking them for walks.

On the left, by me, is our sweet baby Sid! I brought Sid home from the Greenville Humane Society on May 10th, 2016 and he’s been my best friend since that day. He is so sweet and chill (unless it is storming, then he’s panicking.) His love language is touch, he can never get enough pets, and he’s never met a hand that he didn’t want to pet him. He likes short walks and loves swimming and any form of water!

On the right, in front of David, is our newest baby Benny! We brought Benny home on October 4th, 2025 and he immediately became part of our pack. His love language is quality time and FOOD! He was saved by Road Dogg Rescue, from a kill shelter in Georgia and is learning to love being pet after initially being a bit skittish whenever someone would go near his head. Benny loves going to the dog park. If he gets out of the office door without a leash, he will sprint to the Liza Jackson dog park, very much unlike his big brother Sid who will just go potty and head right back inside. Benny loves other doggies, the smaller the better, also different than Sid, who prefers to be the only dog in the room (or on earth.) Benny is a mama’s boy, but Sid is an ~ anyone who will give him attention ~ boy. During the work day, Benny mostly hangs out with his mom in the adjusting room, while Sid excitedly greets patients or expects patients to greet him while he lays on the couch or rug.

We are so grateful for our beautiful community and the support we receive from yall! If you have any questions, feel free to ask 🤗

03/09/2026

It’s always easier to establish good health in childhood, as early as possible, than to spend adult years healing from and correcting bad habits & bad health. The same way that it’s easier, safer, and wiser to build a house with a solid foundation, rather than years later, having to remove and replace the foundation. If you’re interested in our nervous system centered adjustments for your child, with no cracking or popping, shoot us a text “heathy kiddo” 📲 to 850-329-0902

03/05/2026

I’m a chiropractor who doesn’t crack bones, because I see misaligned bones as FRUIT and in my practice we get to the ROOT! 🤓🍎🌳🩻

02/26/2026

The foods we eat are the building blocks of our body. As GMO food consumption rises, so do our diseases. What do yall think of this? Coincidence or cause for concern?

02/24/2026

𝚂𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 🫶

• Our favorite games are Scrabble, Mancala, and Sequence.
• Crafts ideas- coloring, painting, crocheting, scrapbooking, creating with clay, woodworking, embroidering, quilting, tie dying, mosaics, ceramics.. JoJo’s Coffee & Goodness offers cool art classes for all ages!
• Favorite local nature trails are the trails on Eglin, Turkey Creek, Rocky Bayou State Park, and our top favorite is Oak Tree Preserve- that’s where we got engaged & married!
• Favorite local parks/playgrounds are Liza Jackson and Ferry Park
• Activities at the beach- build sandcastles, collect shells, pick up trash, read books, walk, swim, boogie board, picnics, paddle board, surf
• Favorite ways to exercise- walking, swimming, paddle boarding, kayaking, biking, roller skating, hula hooping, trampolines, weight/resistance training, group fitness classes, solo YouTube classes at home
• Reading can be just picking up a good book. Or it can be reading aloud as a couple/family, doing a Bible study, joining a book club, studying Gray’s Anatomy to better understand the body and how it functions, etc!
• Writing- journalling, poems, short stories, books, reviews of books, new/different endings of books. With the family, each member can take a turn writing a paragraph or a page of a short story, this can be super fun and get silly!

Some other ideas: bird watching, going out to coffee shops/ restaurants, hunting, Legos, boating, floating down the creek/river (Turkey Creek or Blackwater River)

What’s your favorite way to spend time, that doesn’t include a screen?

02/21/2026

Do you have a “village”? How did you build it? Would love to hear from yall about this 🫶

Address

348 Miracle Strip Pkwy SW, Suite 5
Fort Walton Beach, FL
32548

Website

http://EmeraldWavesChiropracticCenter.com/

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