Our Story

Dr. Roger Turner graduated from Ryerson University with a degree in business in the early ’70s. While at a party, a friend at the party who happened to be on the admissions board for the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC) was going through a nasty headache and had asked Roger to try and adjust him. After several minutes of instruction, he was able to deliver a solid cervical adjustment and relieve the headache. With that adjustment, his friend said “you are going to be a chiropractor.”

Dr. Roger Turner

05-Aug-1946 - 31-Jul-2022

You have been so much to so many. A father, a husband, a leader, and a healer. You will be missed.

Rest in peace.

Dr. Roger Turner graduated from (CMCC) in 1974 and has practiced across Ontario from Toronto to northern Ontario, including North Bay, Sudbury, Sue St. Maire, Timmins, Haileybury, Manitoulin Island, and Barrie. Roger’s success was known throughout the chiropractic profession and was enough to encourage his younger brother to join the profession in 1981. Roger also had six children, all boys, and maintained a successful practice for over 45 years.

Dr. Turner developed the Cranial Adjusting Turner Style (C.A.T.S.) technique in response to his son’s head injury during a BMX cycling accident, where the butt-end of the handlebars slammed through his helmet striking his temple. The hit to the head started to affect his son’s sight, hearing, and cognitive function. As a father, the injury was his motivation to travel to New York and take the Neural Organisation Technique (NOT) course by Dr. Carle Farrari. By treating the whiplash, cranial suture misalignment, and muscles of the skull, his son made a full and rapid recovery.

Dr. Turner has trained more than 1,000 chiropractors in his C.A.T.S. technique in North America and beyond. He is also the author of more than 70 articles and books on chiropractic, cranial adjusting, and wellness.

Word spread, and chiropractors from all over the world would bring their special needs children to us for help. They were amazed at the results and wanted us to teach them the technique. In 2003, Cranial Adjusting Turner Style (C.A.T.S) was created. Now, there are over 1000 C.A.T.S. Chiropractors worldwide who get the same amazing results with head injuries, headaches, special needs children, ADD/ADHD, learning difficulties, failure to latch babies, poor memory, personality disorders, trigeminal neuralgia, Bells Palsy, and Post-concussion syndrome.

It has always been Roger’s wish that his C.A.T.S. legacy is carried on. This is where I (Dr. Rory Turner) fit into the picture.

My twin brother and I developed very strong drawing skills by the age of 19 and were commissioned to illustrate Roger’s technique manuals for the C.A.T.S. course. We spent hours every night, for almost a year, live sketching my father’s hands, miming an adjustment on a model skull. During this task, I developed a keen interest in my father’s work and was fortunate to learn from him while also learning the technique through drawing.

Fast forward to 2014, I graduated from my father’s Alma mater Canadian Memorial College of Chiropractic (CMCC), and officially completed levels I and II of C.A.T.S. cranial adjusting. I ventured into the health care world on my own, armed, with confidence and the knowledge of what is possible. I was fortunate enough to have witnessed firsthand in my father’s office and at home the remarkable changes that adjusting the plates of the skull can have.

Over the past seven years, I have enjoyed being the one who gets to change other people’s lives. I have seen some interesting cases, some bizarre cases, and there is always a common theme in the office that my father had right so many years ago, there is always something we can do to help.