The Official Website of Author Dr Bernard Preston

FOR THOSE WHO LOVE TO READ ... AND WANT SIMPLE WAYS TO BE HEALTHIER AND HAPPIER.

Bernard Preston was born into a Chiropractic family, with all its pros and cons. Cons? Yes, he was very lucky to live past his ninth month. Just like today, vaccinations were questioned, and he very nearly died from Diphtheria.

But all the pros! Not expected to live, at death's door for several weeks, who knows, was it healthy mother's milk, regular chiropractic care, or ... the prayers of his nanny? We'll never know.

His mother Unity, came from a vegetarian family, intensely interested in nutrition. A plantation of Pecan nuts, a garden with three Avocado trees and many other indigenous fruits, and an organic vegetable corner, of course. And, shielded behind a row of thick bushes, an apiary of wild African honey bees. Aged 18, dux of her school, young Unity bordered a liner bound for the United States, and a career in Chiropractic, just a few weeks before the start of WW 2.

His father Dick, an American by birth, had a quite different background. Injured while playing golf, and helped by a chiropractor, he too decided to make Chiropractic his life.

Of course they met. After graduating from Palmer College of Chiropractic, Dick completed a short course on extremity adjusting at the Lincoln College where he met and swept the young South African off her feet!

Bernard Preston survived his diphtheria, a very serious disease in those pre-sophisticated antibiotic days, and went on to graduate from high school, a degree majoring in Physics and Chemistry and, after seven years of teaching, knowing deep down that he could not escape his destiny despite a rebellious spirit, trained at the National College.

Preston's daughter, Jane, too is a chiropractor. Inevitably!

After nearly thirty years in practice, few people can tell it from the inside like Preston. Certainly not a 'know it all', Preston has a healthy respect for the scientific method and evidence-based care. Aware that chiropractic had no James Herriot to tell the chiropractic story, Bernard began to write his stories. Now, much loved by his fans, scorned by chiropractic's critics, his books have found a nitch in the chiropractic world. Says he: "Few things disturbed me more than, walking into two of the biggest book shops in the world, I couldn't find one book on Chiropractic."

Light, fun, easy reading, here you will find the inside story of Chiropractic.

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I do enjoy your writing style, Dr Preston. The lighter side of life…….I enjoy reading books that are not too heavy, so I don't have to think too hard. Thinking is reserved for when I work! When I read I want it to flow easily and be no effort for my tired brain to understand. Your writing does just this.

Dr Kendrah Da Silva, South Africa

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Congratulations to Italy on becoming the latest country in which chiropractic is recognised, with the right and duty to diagnose on the standard primary contact basis, and with the right to use the title 'doctor of chiropractic'. DC.

(There are now 90 countries world wide where chiropractic is recognised and regulated)

I am looking forward to your third book, Dr Preston. I really enjoyed reading Frog and Bats! They make you think, laugh and relax just like a good book should!

www.chiropractic-help.com This interesting new website is for patients seeking more information about how chiropractic may be able to help them. From breastbone pain to sprained ankles.

The Bone and Joint decade 2000-2010. For the most authorative literature search on neck pain see the CHIROPRACTIC button at the top of this page.

New research: confirms that seniors who are active suffer from less back pain. See 'Chiropractic research' link above.

"Hmm, this looks like a good read!" - Ruth Ackerman (his granddaughter, the next chiropractor?)

Voor onze Nederlandse lezers: "Nieuwsgierig een blik in geworpen. De eerste paar zinnen die ik las prikkelde mijn gevoel voor humor en wekte mijn belangstelling. Dús maar ..." Kijk eens naar Novels - Frog - Reviews.

Bernard Preston writes with an engaging touch that spurs you onwards to the next chapter. I felt that I could read it again and find something that I had missed or even extract a deeper understanding from the second time around. It would be a good companion on a long distance flight.

Bats in my Belfry is the fascinating autobiographical tale of Bernard Preston’s life and work as a chiropractic doctor in South Africa, his varied relationships with his patients, friends and family, and the pros and cons of his profession. It is at once scientifically informative, funny, sad, poignant and very, very human. Overall, this really is an absorbing tale that is a good read in terms of both content and style.

Bernard Preston’s two novels come as a delightful surprise. He has a refreshingly natural flair for story-telling. His style is relaxed and easy to read, giving us a delicious peep into the daily life of a chiropractor– I’m looking forward to his third book.

I’m bleary eyed this am! Your book, Bats in my Belfry, has kept me up half the night! My wife is complaining about you, she can’t ever remember me doing that before. It’s a pot boiler!

The Straighten Up America, Straighten Up Everywhere revolution, started by chiropractor Dr Ron Kirk, has taken the world by storm since being endorsed by the unpartisan, interdisciplinary Bone and Joint Decade BJD 2000-2010. For your free three minute program go to: www.straightenupamerica.org