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By Peter W. Crownfield, Executive Editor

By K. Jeffrey Miller, DC, DABCO and Ray Tuck, DC

Congenital anomalies of the spine are common radiographic findings – common enough, in fact, that the developers of the ICD-9-CM coding system thought it necessary to assign diagnosis codes to a small group of them. This select list of anomalies is found in the ICD-9-CM under congenital disorders and codes 756.10 through 756.19.

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By Editorial Staff

A storm has been brewing over the Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE) for more than two years. It began in mid-2009 when the CCE released the first draft of its Accreditation Standards: Principles, Processes & Requirements for Accreditation for review and comment. The storm clouds darkened considerably with the release of the second draft in early 2010. The first draft evoked only 28 responses, whereas "nearly 4,000 stakeholders" responded to the second draft.

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By Joseph J. Sweere, DC, DABCO, DACBOH, FICC

For this issue, I interviewed Timothy Wegscheid, DC, who provides on-site chiropractic care and ergonomic assessments at the Minnesota Zoo.

Briefly tell us about yourself and how you decided to become a doctor of chiropractic. Thankfully, my mom is an RN. I say 'thankfully' because she kept a 'concussion journal' for me to track my major head injuries growing up. Those concussions were mainly due to the fact that my neighborhood was almost entirely boys and we always played rough. Sadly, I suffered 10 or 11 of these major concussions while I was still a very young child.

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