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The association was created to perpetuate the McTimoney-Corley technique originally taught at the Oxford College of Chiropractic set up by Hugh Corley, Shelagh James-Hudson and Bobbie Nicholson. Its aims are to unite our specialist group and protect both the public and our practitioners. It supports its members enabling them to continue to promote health and wellbeing for their customers. Regular continuing professional development courses are held and the benefits of a block insurance scheme are provided for members.
Membership of this Association is limited, at present, to graduates of the Oxford College of Chiropractic, the Oxford College of Equine Physical Therapy and the McTimoney Chiropractic School/College
The Oxford College of Chiropractic was formerly known as the Witney School of Chiropractic - so the abbreviations OCC or WSC may be found after a graduate's qualification.
Qualifications obtained there were:
- Licensed Chiropractor (LC)
- Diploma in Chiropractic (DC)
- Bachelor of Science Degree from Oxford Brookes University (BSc Chiropractic - OBU)
The professional body to which these graduates belonged, either as Fellows (F) or Members (M), was the British Association for Applied Chiropractic (BAAC).
The Oxford College of Chiropractic has now closed. The Oxford College of Equine Physical Therapy (OCEPT) was formerly known as the Oxford College of Chiropractic animal course.
Qualifications now obtained there are:
- Diploma in McTimoney-Corley Animal Manipulation - Dip. MCAM (OCEPT)
The British Association for Applied Chiropractic was created in 1986 and established by Deed dated the first of September 1988. Its chief aims were to maintain professional standards in the practice of the McTimoney-Corley method of chiropractic throughout Britain, and to further public understanding of the technique.
Notice To Patients
In 1994 the Chiropractors Act was placed on the UK Statute books.
A 'Register of Chiropractors' was opened in 1999 by the statutory body known as the General Chiropractic Council (GCC) and the title of ‘Chiropractor’ has been protected by law since 2001.
This has meant that every person using the professional title of 'Chiropractor' must pay almost £1000 per year to be registered with the GCC. Unfortunately, this increased financial burden to GCC- registered chiropractors has usually required a marked increase in patients’ treatment fees.
Rather than do this, some duly qualified but non GCC- registered practitioners have decided to call themselves McTIMONEY- CORLEY SPINAL THERAPISTS and a Practitioners Register was created for this purpose in 2001.
Some of your local GCC- registered chiropractors have now resigned from the GCC register in order to join this association.They can now continue to provide exactly the same high standard of treatment that you have always received from them without having to raise their fees accordingly.
You can rest assured that your fully insured and registered McTimoney-Corley Spinal Therapist will continue to put your interests first.
Please note that the Chiropractors Act does not stop chiropractic treatment being given by persons duly qualified in that technique but who are not GCC- registered, provided that they no longer call that treatment ‘chiropractic’.
A ballot amongst its members regarding a merger with the McTimoney Chiropractic Association (MCA) was carried out in September 2001. The vote for the merger was carried with a small majority so the BAAC ceased functioning on the thirty-first of December 2001 and ceased to exist on the thirtieth of June 2002. The Association of McTimoney-Corley Spinal Therapists commenced on the first of July 2002 and became a limited company in October 2002.
The reasons for the creation of this new association were:
- To support our General Chiropractic Council (GCC) registered graduates who were reluctant to learn another chiropractic technique - in some cases quite late in their careers - which was the requirement for joining the McTimoney Chiropractic Association, (MCA), after the merger. Non-GCC registered graduates were already ineligible to join the MCA.
- To support those of our graduates who had not applied to join the newly formed GCC register of chiropractors (for whatever reason) so could no longer call themselves chiropractors and who were thus ineligible to join any of the other chiropractic associations.
- To support those members who trained in Animal Chiropractic but who are now not allowed to call themselves Animal Chiropractors. Animal Chiropractic is not legally recognised by the GCC and all such practitioners are now referred to as 'Animal Manipulators' and cannot register with the GCC.
- To obtain a block insurance scheme for all our members.
The chief aims of this association are:
- To maintain high professional standards of treatment, thus protecting the public and our members.
- To promote the McTimoney-Corley 'Reflex Recoil Adjustment' (R.R.A.) technique.
- To further enhance our members' professional expertise through Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses.