The phrase "alternate therapy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to non-conventional treatments or practices that are used instead of standard medical therapies.
Example: "Many people seek alternate therapy options when traditional medicine does not provide the relief they need."
Alternatives: "alternative treatment" or "complementary therapy".
They hear Diane Sawyer talking about people who've gotten meningitis from steroid injections and they do not think about alternate therapy for back pain.
Implantable neural prostheses that deliver focal electrical stimulation upon demand are rapidly emerging as an alternate therapy for roughly a third of the epileptic patient population that is medically refractory.
This study sought to evaluate the safety of the Coronary Sinus Reducer (Neovasc Medical, Inc., Or Yehuda, Israel) as a potential alternate therapy for patients with refractory angina who are not candidates for conventional revascularization procedures.
Although heparin has been shown to reduce in-hospital stroke rates, antiplatelet therapy (aspirin and clopidogrel) has emerged as an alternate therapy without proved efficacy; carotid stenting has also been implemented for pseudoaneurysms (13% BCI), but its utility has recently been challenged.
The recommended alternate therapy is systemic or intravitreal voriconazole.
"The medical community is united in agreeing that alternate therapy is not an effective means of treating cancer patients.
Byron also has many other distractions including great shopping and a variety of alternate therapies.
Patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI) without potential for revascularization are currently without alternate therapies.
Despite aggressive therapy, these tumors remain universally fatal; therefore, it is important to develop alternate therapies for this deadly disease.
This is relevant for clinical decisions regarding management of patients using this therapy and for introducing alternate therapies.
But "high-risk" patients have traditionally been excluded from these studies and may be offered alternate therapies.
