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National Associations Open Discussion Forums on Chiroweb.com

ACA, ICA Representatives Will Answer Your Questions On Line
Editorial Staff

For more than a year, chiroweb.com has provided its users with online discussion forums to express their opinions and share ideas about chiropractic.

Now, chiropractic's two largest associations, the American Chiropractic Association and the International Chiropractors Association, have joined chiroweb.com by offering their own discussion forums. By the time you read this, both the ACA and ICA will have had their discussion forums up and running on line for more than two weeks.

Users can access the ACA's discussion forum directly at
www.chiroweb.com/cgi-bin/forum/aca.cgi.

The address for the ICA's forum is
www.chiroweb.com/cgi-bin/forum/ica.cgi.

The complete list of chiroweb.com's discussion boards can be found at
www.chiroweb.com/chat/chirodiscuss.html.

February 1999
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