What is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is a straight forward method of adjusting the bones of the body to maintain the correct alignment of the spine and ensure that the body’s nerve supply work efficiently. Through these subtle adjustment chiropractic treatment can relieve pain and discomfort, increase mobility and provide a route to better health.
At Bank Chambers we use the McTimoney Technique.
It is the gentleness of the technique and the treatment of the whole body that distinguishes the McTimoney method from other manipulative therapies. The speed and the precision of adjustment make it a relatively gentle and relaxing treatment to receive. Pain and disease can arise from bones that have moved to interfere with the body's nerve supply; by feeling the position of every bone at every treatment, the chiropractor is able to affect the problem at its source, in other words it is a whole body treatment.
What Can it Help?
These conditions can benefit from treatment:
Back neck and shoulder problems
Headaches
Muscular aches and pains
Joint stiffness
Sciatica
Whiplash
Infant colic and sleep problems
What will happen on your first consultation?
A full case history is taken followed by any relevant orthopaedic or neurological tests.Your chiropractor will examine your joints and explain what treatment is appropriate. A treatment plan will be advised , this may include exercise.
How many treatments?
This depends on many factors these include:
How long have you had symptoms. How old are you and your general health. How many injuries have you had. Typically between two and six sessions over a three month period.
Who can be treated ?
Most people can be treated including:
Babies and children of all ages
Pregnant women after the first three months
The elderly
The consultation process is designed to indicate if it is appropriate to refer someone for other medical screening.
More Information
Chiropractic technique helps the nervous system function properly by ensuring the skeleton is aligned correctly. Chiropractors do this by using adjustments to help the bones align correctly.
The human body is composed of a network of nerve fibres. This is protected by a framework of bones - your skeleton. The nerve fibres and skeleton act together giving optimum health. The messages to and from the brain that travel along the nerve fibres need to be free flowing and if a bone is not in its right position this flow will be impeded.
Chiropractors check misalignment that could put the body out of natural balance and work with the patient to make a plan to look at adjusting this over a period of time, which will alleviate pain, improve mobility and promote natural healing and health.
Chiropractic does not involve the use of drugs or surgery. It originated in 1895 in the USA and is one of the largest healthcare professions in the world.
McTimoney chiropractic
The McTimoney method of chiropractic is named after its originator John McTimoney who developed this gentle, whole body, approach from existing chiropractic techniques.McTimoney chiropractic has a vitalistic approach, which means that practitioners recognise the body's natural capacity to heal itself. They check the whole body and where necessary perform low-force, fast, precise adjustments to help realign the individual bones of the skeleton, allowing the nervous system to work as well as it possibly can. The key to the success of these adjustments is the speed, dexterity, and accuracy with which they are performed. McTimoney chiropractic has been found helpful for thousands of people for over 30 years and it is growing by nearly 150,000 new patients per year. Over 8000 people are treated with McTimoney chiropractic each day.
How McTimoney chiropractic works
When McTimoney chiropractic facilitates the realignment of the skeleton using lowforce, fast, precise adjustments, it removes interference to nerve messages, allowing the body to rebalance. McTimoney chiropractic can help maintain your body, keeping you well and functioning in optimum health.
Chiropractors from the McTimoney Chiropractic Association are experienced in giving advice to help you live the life you choose, and can help provide simple solutions to health issues, which can be used in conjunction with other forms of care.
Who and what it can help
McTimoney chiropractic can help anybody and everybody, from newborn babies to grandparents; it is suitable for the whole family (including animals!). It is even suitable for pregnant women.
McTimoney chiropractic can promote a feeling of wellbeing and improve quality of life. It has also been found helpful not just for headaches, back, neck and joint pain, but also a wide range of ailments such as irritable bowel syndrome, menstrual pain, dental pain, and poor mobility or circulation. McTimoney chiropractic may help you maintain the active lifestyle you want to lead it has been found to benefit sportspeople, gardeners, office workers, health workers, musicians.
McTimoney chiropractic is a popular approach used to alleviate problems in dogs, horses and other animals. No other chiropractors are trained and qualified to adjust animals. Practitioners must undergo two years of extra training to qualify to treat animals.
A survey revealed that 89% of people undergoing McTimoney chiropractic are very or extremely satisfied with their treatment (MCA, Patient Survey, 2004).
The McTimoney Chiropractic Association
The McTimoney Chiropractic Association is the professional body for all chiropractors trained at the McTimoney Chiropractic College. The membership of the MCA has been growing by 12% a year for the last three years.
The MCA currently has over 500 members in the UK and Ireland and is the second largest professional chiropractic association in the UK and in Europe. Around one third of UK chiropractors are members of the MCA.
How chiropractic in the UK is regulated
Chiropractors from the McTimoney Chiropractic Association undergo rigorous training and are fully qualified to give treatment and advice. All UK chiropractors are registered with the UK's statutory regulatory body for chiropractors, the General Chiropractic Council, which is the equivalent of a doctor being registered under the General Medical Council.
How learning McTimoney chiropractic is accredited
To become a chiropractor from the McTimoney Chiropractic Association you need to attend a 5-year course, which is accredited by the General Chiropractic Council, at the McTimoney College of Chiropractic. Practitioners undergo two years of extra training (a post-graduate diploma in animal manipulation) to qualify to treat animals. Like medics, chiropractors from the McTimoney Chiropractic Association are required to update their knowledge each year via a continuing professional development programme involving 30 hours study per year.
Currently it is experiencing growth amounting to 150,000 new patients per year [MCA] with practitioners of McTimoney chiropractic treating over 8,000 patients per day in the UK [MCA].
According to recent research carried out on behalf of the MCA, it seems they are certainly keeping their customers satisfied. Eighty-nine percent of those surveyed, who were undergoing McTimoney chiropractic, claimed to be either very or extremely satisfied with their treatment [1].
Chiropractors from the MCA are experienced in giving advice and currently help treat a range of sportspeople, celebrities, gardeners, office workers, health workers and musicians, for example.
For more information about McTimoney chiropractic visit http://www.mctimoney-chiropractic.org
1. MCA. Patient Survey, 2004.
The MCA is the professional body for all chiropractors trained at the McTimoney College of Chiropractic. The MCA is the second largest professional chiropractic association in the UK and in Europe.
Chiropractors from the MCA undergo rigorous training and are fully qualified to give treatment and advice. All UK chiropractors are registered with the UK's statutory regulatory body for chiropractors, the General Chiropractic Council, which is the equivalent of a doctor being registered under the General Medical Council. The GCC accredits the 5-year course at the McTimoney College of Chiropractic.