Shifting Scientific Paradigms Influence Clinical Perspective
According to Thomas S. Kuhn in his book, The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions, republished in 1996, "Close historical investigation of a given specialty at a given time discloses a set of recurrent, and quasi standard illustrations of various theories in their conceptual, observational, and instrumental applications.  These are the community's paradigms, revealed in its text books, lectures and laboratory exercises."  Much new information and discovery has occurred over the past century.  Kuhn describes in his book that such new discovery drives the formation of new paradigms.  One hundred years ago Watson and Crick were still some years away from agitating their first test tube.  With the gift of hindsight, conventional thought now says that the blueprint of life is the DNA we inherit at the moment of conception.  Certainly, there is nothing more innate to our essence than that DNA of our first cell.  DNA represents the intelligence from which we were created.  For some, it may reflect the physical manifestation of a supreme intelligence of a creator that is a part of us.  DNA is widely accepted to be the storage medium of the biological computer system that expresses itself through the construction and animation of the human body.  Paradigms are made to be broken, to mangle a familiar platitude.  Later in our presentation we will see that the present day paradigm of DNA determinism is incomplete, and that far more subtle and interesting levels of control are involved.

The Dawn of Informational Medicine
The second half of the first century of chiropractic saw the introduction of techniques that were not primarily mechanical in nature.  This was a time when science and technology gave new perspective to old assumptions.  This was a time when it was recognized that the chiropractic manipulation really wasn't taking bones that were out of place, and putting them back where they belong.  It was recognized that the process of performing vertebral manipulation involved applying physical forces to the body that activated various neurological sensors and, by reflex, caused a change in the motor output of the nervous system thus correcting functional disturbance.  This often resulted in improved physiology, particularly the physiology of posture, and motion of the spine.  Many times it resulted in improvement of visceral function.   Many of the techniques developed in the first half of the first century of chiropractic took an interest in the creation of efficient ways of producing osseous manipulation; but many of the techniques developed in the second half of the first century of chiropractic took an interest in developing systems that were more purely neurologically reflexive in nature. 

Neuromodulation Technique is neurologically reflexive in nature, and seeks to create specific sensory input for the purpose of producing a more perfect motor output to regulate the body.