I'm Dr. Brandie Elizabeth Keates. Before I was a chiropractor, I was a paramedic. I've delivered babies. I've managed emergencies. That training taught me to stay calm under pressure, spot the nuances that matter, and never dismiss what someone tells me they're feeling.
I spent nearly 25 years treating professional athletes and applying that same sports medicine precision to pregnancy. Because the same injury that sidelines an athlete is the same injury that keeps a pregnant woman from walking, working, and living her life. I know this because it happened to me. The same condition kept me from working during my own pregnancy, and that's when I realized just how debilitating it is and how little help existed.
I've worked with thousands of women with SPD. And I've watched the same story play out over and over. She's in pain. She tells her provider. They say "it's normal." And she believes them. So she waits. She white-knuckles it through the rest of her pregnancy, counting down to delivery, convinced it'll all be over once the baby arrives.
But it doesn't go away. It just changes shape. The pubic pain becomes lower back pain. The instability becomes core weakness. The damage Peggy caused during pregnancy quietly shows up postpartum as something else entirely. And then she spends months chasing a new set of symptoms that started with the same untreated problem.
I wrote What You Don't Expect When You're Expecting in 2018 because no one warns women about this. Not their doctor. Not their mother. Not the pregnancy apps. It usually hits hardest in a second pregnancy, right when she thinks she knows what to expect. And the pain is only half of it. The other half is finding out that no one around her believes it's real.
Then women started showing up postpartum wondering why the pain never left. So I wrote Why Does My Kitty Still Hurt? in 2023. Because Peggy doesn't just disappear after delivery. She goes quiet, and then she comes back as something else. And most recently, What Your Partner Doesn't Expect When Expecting (and How to Help) in 2025, because the person sleeping next to you wants to help. They just have no idea how.
Three books. All on Amazon. Nearly 25 years of clinical practice. Thousands of patients. And I condensed all of it into this. Outsmart Peggy is everything I would walk you through if you were sitting in my office tonight. The same assessment. The same protocol. The same order. Just without the waitlist.
Why wait to heal something that's only getting worse? Why suffer through a pregnancy you could be savoring? You can start tonight.