The most common pregnancy-related conditions chiropractors treat are sciatic nerve, low back, or pelvic pain experienced with walking, sitting and/or sleeping. A referral is not required to see a chiropractor during pregnancy.

Essentially, beside providing pain relief, a chiropractor's role in prenatal care is to promote pelvic balance and alignment, allowing the baby to be in the best position for delivery. Dr. Gervais is also trained to use a manipulation technique that can help breech babies to re-position themselves before delivery.

A chiropractor can also offer postnatal care with discomfort brought on as a result of changes to the mother’s pelvic biomechanics in pregnancy, labour, or postpartum while caring for their baby. Some of the most common conditions seen in mothers who just had a baby are upper and mid back pain related to breast-feeding, bottle-feeding, lifting car seats, or holding/rocking babies to sleep.