Alternative Medicine (Hint: This is NOT really medicine)

[Bad Writer]

The only good that my son got out of NAET was the training to focus on is body along with the exercises that went with it. Apart from that, no it does not seem to have any validity.

I don't recall there being exercises in NAET, but perhaps this particular practitioner of your son's added some routines in there for good measure.

NAET (Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Techniques) is what Dr. Heather (the quack I mentioned at the start of this thread) used to "cure" my sister-in-law of her seasonal and animal allergies. It's funny too because she is a staunch atheist (her words, not mine), and she was even wary of seeing this lady to about her allergies, calling her a "voodoo doctor". I heard about her experiences second hand, but, of course, she used her AK (Applied Kinesiology) techniques to verify the illnesses, placing a small vial of the allergens on her leg while she pushed down on her arm to see if the substance's proximity would trigger a weakness in her muscles. Each session was only $40, but the treatment sessions were many and varied; this of course added up to well over $1000 in the end.

I came to find out that she even tried to cure my wife of her "allergies" as well, but these problems were persistent and didn't want to go away...which is why she was still seeing this doctor until recently.

Pity was that the wait for a Physiotherapist who treated Autistic people was about 2 years, hence this other route.

It is. This is precisely the reason why my wife went to go see the Alternative Medicine practitioner in the first place was because of a lack of apparent progress on the Western Medicine's side of things. She was frustrated, she had hit a wall...but I'm convinced she just didn't have me yet to help her sort through the issues one by one.

I guess it's just my experience that even if these docs are non-invasive, inexpensive, and your last ditch effort at trying something different...then don't go see them anyway. Without science to back their claims, barring the Placebo Effect, it's still a waste of time and money. Raising false hopes in their patients, in my opinion, also seems highly unethical for anyone practicing what they deem to be medicine.