Meet your chiropractor
Dr Jeffrey McTavish DC
BSc(Hons) MSc MCC UCA Doctor of Chiropractic, practising since 1999
“An ethos of natural medicine, good nutrition and a positive mental attitude.”
Jeffrey relocated from Canada to train at the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic in Bournemouth, graduating with an MSc in Chiropractic. He opened The Windsor Clinic in West Worthing in 1999 and has practised here ever since.
The through-line of his practice is an ethos of natural medicine, good nutrition and a positive mental attitude. Not a slogan, but something he actually lives: martial arts, meditation and Reiki sit alongside the clinical training rather than replacing it.
That combination is why the clinic looks the way it does. A spine gets the same rigour it would in any regulated medical practice, and the technology bench exists because some problems respond better to light, heat or acoustic energy than to hands alone.
What runs through all of it
Three things, practised rather than printed.
Natural medicine
Nothing is prescribed here and nothing is cut. Hands on the spine and the joints first, and where hands are not the right tool, light, pulsed fields or focused acoustic energy instead. Every one of them non-invasive, and all of them aimed at supporting what the body already does rather than overriding it.
Good nutrition
The second of the three, and the one he lives most visibly. How it fits into your own care is something he will talk through with you at your Report of Findings.
A positive mental attitude
Martial arts, meditation and Reiki have sat alongside the clinical training from the beginning rather than replacing any of it. They are where the ethos came from, not decoration applied to it afterwards.
What that looks like from the couch.
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One person, start to finish
The same chiropractor takes your history, examines you, explains what he found and treats you. Nobody is handed on.
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You are told before anything is decided
The Report of Findings is a sit-down in plain English: what is causing it, whether Chiropractic can help, and what that would involve. Including when the answer is no.
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The tool fits the problem
The therapies here exist so that the treatment can suit what is actually wrong, rather than the problem being made to suit the one treatment available.
The training underneath it
Qualifications and techniques
Hands-on technique
- SOT (Sacro Occipital Technique)
- Activator Methods
- Applied Kinesiology
- Myofascial Dry Needling
- Cranial Facial Release
Alongside the spine
- Level II Thermographer
- Animal Chiropractic (BVCA, since 2010)
- Reiki Master
Regulated, and checkable.
Chiropractic is a statutorily regulated profession in the United Kingdom. Every practising chiropractor must be registered with the General Chiropractic Council, the same footing as GPs and dentists, and the register is public — so you can verify any chiropractor before you book, here or anywhere else.
Look us up on the General Chiropractic Council register- GCC-registered General Chiropractic Council
- 27+ years Practising since 1999
- Working with Bupa & AXA
Three answers we didn’t write.
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“The effectiveness of manipulation is supported by strong evidence in 19 randomised controlled trials, and the risks of manipulation are very low in skilled hands.”
Royal College of General Practitioners Clinical guidelines for the management of acute low back pain -
Spinal manipulation delivered the best value for money of the approaches tested for low back pain in general practice: a measurable benefit at modest cost.
UK BEAM Trial British Medical Journal, 2004 -
Patients treated with Chiropractic showed greater improvement, and lost fewer working days, than those managed as hospital outpatients.
Meade et al. British Medical Journal, 1990
Personal care since 1999
One chiropractor, who will remember you.
The same person examines you, explains what they have found and treats you — directly opposite West Worthing station.
