[Prudence]

My impression is that Bastyr is making deliberate efforts to be more "legit". They've been actively pursuing research relationships with both the school of nursing and the school of medicine here. So it's likely changed somewhat since you left the area.

(Oh - and extension will hire just about anyone to teach just about anything. They're self-sustaining, so anything that brings in dollars is fine by them.)

I think most of the stuff I'd consider is on the boundary of alternative/conventional. It's been proven to have some success, but not embraced broadly as routine treatment.

For example: I don't buy into the theory that chiropractors can cure anything that ails you. But I've had a diagnosed curvature of the spine since I was in about the fourth grade. Not severe enough to merit "conventional" treatment, so nothing was done. Except prescribe some bizarre and painful exercises my mom was supposed to make me do. Stuff like trying to force my back flat against the wall. Even if it did work, doing it without supervision from even a physical therapist made it useless. And that was the conventional doc! Can chiropractors fix scoliosis? Probably not. But damn I'd want to see if they could improve anything.

Although come to think of it, that's about when they added ballet to my dance schedule. Ballet as alternative treatment? Who knows?