About the United Chiropractic Association

“We commit to inspire and empower people to choose principle-centred Chiropractic”

The United Chiropractic Association is an organisation representing chiropractors and students.

The UCA stand behind the underlying principle of chiropractic that ‘healthy spine, healthier life.’ By offering expert drug-free spinal health care and lifestyle advice, UCA chiropractors can help you to lead and maintain a healthy life.

The UCA is the youngest chiropractic association in the UK with membership growing steadily since 2000.

UCA Vision

The UCA vision is to:

• Ensure the public has access to principle centred chiropractic care
  
  
• Facilitate and promote communication between members, leaders and the chiropractic community
  
  
• Develop chiropractic through research funding and promotion of the profession
  
  
• Provide leadership and facilitate unity within the profession
  
  
• Support and represent the membership

UCA History

In 2000 the need for a new Chiropractic association that would represent the subluxation based wellness paradigm was evident.

The UCA was set up to represent chiropractors who believe that the principles on which chiropractic was founded are as important today as they were in the beginning. We uphold the idea that health is the natural state for the human being and that we are designed, or have evolved in such a way that we are always striving to return to a state of balanced health.

The UCA supports the ACC paradigm that the World Federation of Chiropractors adopted as its policy statement on 23 May 2001:

"Chiropractic is a health care discipline which emphasizes the inherent recuperative power of the body to heal itself without the use of drugs or surgery."

The practice of chiropractic focuses on the relationship between structure (primarily the spine) and function (as coordinated by the nervous system) and how that relationship affects the preservation and restoration of health. In addition, Doctors of Chiropractic recognize the value and responsibility of working in cooperation with other health care practitioners when in the best interest of the patient.

The Association of Chiropractic Colleges continues to foster a unique, distinct chiropractic profession that serves as a health care discipline for all. The ACC advocates a profession that generates, develops, and utilizes the highest level of evidence possible in the provision of effective, prudent, and cost-conscious patient evaluation and care.

The Subluxation

Chiropractic is concerned with the preservation and restoration of health, and focuses particular attention on the subluxation.

A subluxation is a complex of functional and/or structural and/or pathological articular changes that compromise neural integrity and may influence organ system function and general health.

A subluxation is evaluated, diagnosed, and managed through the use of chiropractic procedures based on the best available rational and empirical evidence” Subluxation is a fundamental axiom of the Chiropractic profession. The WFC policy statement reaffirms the use of the term vertebral subluxation and it is defined succinctly and accepted by the World Health Organisation (WHO)

Philosophical Constructs:

Vitalism - We ascribe to the idea that all living organisms are sustained by an innate intelligence, which is both different from and greater than physical and chemical forces. Further, we believe innate intelligence is an expression of universal intelligence.

Holism - The whole is greater than the sum of the parts

Neural - We ascribe to the concept that the nervous system is the major coordinator

Supremacy - and regulator of all bodily systems

Conservative - Our belief in the body’s ability to heal itself logically implies that the best care

Ethic - is the least invasive care

Humanism - We ascribe to the belief that individuals have immutable rights

Core Values:

• We recognize and respect a universal intelligence in all matter and an innate intelligence within a living organism that drives to preserve life and, if uninhibited, will express optimal potential.
  
  
• The nervous system has a central role in regulating, coordinating and integrating the functions of the entire organism.
  
  
• We recognize that interference to innate intelligence (subluxation) diminishes healing capacity, with an alteration in the dynamic interrelationship between mental, physical and social aspects of the whole person.
  
  
• The art of Chiropractic encourages optimal expression of health by the detection, removal (adjustment) and prevention of nervous system interference.
  
  
• To use drugless, minimally invasive techniques to adjust identified subluxations throughout an individual’s lifetime.
  
  
• We commit to assist the process of self-empowerment with compassion and care, whilst respecting each person’s dignity, uniqueness and freedom of choice.

For more information please contact the UCA direct:
Telephone: 01752 658785 or Email: admin@united-chiropractic.org

WFC POLICY STATEMENT Adoption of the ACC Paradigm Approved by the Assembly of the World Federation of Chiropractic Paris, May 23, 2001 http://www.wfc.org/website/docs/992003142614.pdf