18 years ago my infant son had a fall and developed hydrocephalus. They wanted to do brain surgery on him and install a shunt. They told us that he would lead a normal life, but when I asked if that incuded playing football, hockey, parachuting, and living in the wilderness for weeks or months at a time, they looked at me like I was a retard.

We took him to a homeopath who put him on tissue salts, and then we took him to a chiropractor in New Mexico who had also studied cranial-sacral therapy. He was able to effect a 100% cure on our son, without surgery. This would not work in every case, but our son's case was developing slowly which gave us time to try alternate therapy.

By the age of three, our son spoke both of Canada's official languages fluently and could ride a two-wheel bicycle with no training wheels. Although he never played football or hockey, he did make the Territorial soccer team, and led his school to local basketball, and volleyball championships. None of that would have been possible had he followed the surgical route.