Connect & Learn – Concussion & Women’s Health – Orange
17 October @ 1:30 pm - 7:00 pm AEDT
Free
Join us for our first Connect & Learn in the Orange region on Saturday afternoon 17 October 2026.
Two awesome speakers, Dr’s Ryan Hislop and Janine Kinahan, covering two fantastic topics. Catch up with local colleagues, and meet ACA Regional Manager, Cheryl Jendrachowski.
The Concussion Toolkit: In-Practice Screening, Acute Care, and Managing the Post-Concussion Patient
When a patient presents to your clinic post-concussion, a structured, evidence-based approach is essential. This session bridges the gap between complex brain pathophysiology and practical chiropractic application. We will review the biomechanical forces that cause concussion, examine the brain’s metabolic shifts, and practice simple, high-yield diagnostic tests you can seamlessly integrate into your workflow.
You will learn critical first-aid strategies for acute presentations, how to identify red flags, and how to spot and manage the early signs of Post-Concussion Syndrome to optimise your patients’ neurofunctional recovery.
Beyond Normal: Advanced Approaches to the Menstrual Cycle in Practice
More than half the people walking into your clinic menstruate — and most of what you were taught about “normal” periods was wrong. This advanced session moves past the basics for practitioners already comfortable with women’s health fundamentals, and interrogates the line between normal, common, and acceptable.
We’ll unpack dysmenorrhoea through a phenotype lens — biomechanical, inflammatory, neurological, pathological — and how to differentiate them in real time: the red flags to listen for, the verbiage clients actually use to describe what’s happening in their body.
Then we go somewhere most CPD doesn’t: pelvic congestion syndrome, an underdiagnosed vascular cause of chronic pelvic pain gaining traction in mainstream and clinical literature — what it looks like, and how to recognise it.
You’ll also leave thinking differently about the pelvic region itself — not as an isolated joint or organ system, but as a fascial and SI-joint connection viewed through a whole-body lens.
Time: 1:30pm to 7:00pm – Includes Dinner
Location: The Remington – 1517 Forest Road, Orange, NSW
Our speakers
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- Dr Janine Kinahan
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Dr Janine Kinahan is a chiropractor who has spent her career focusing on her passion: bringing high-level paediatric and women’s health chiropractic to families who wouldn’t otherwise have access to it. A CMCC graduate (2005), she holds three postgraduate diplomates — in Clinical Women’s Health, Chiropractic Neurodevelopmental Paediatrics, and ICPA Paediatrics.
Janine has taught and lectured in paediatric chiropractic both nationally and internationally and has been part of the SOT teaching faculty since 2010. She runs 2 rural clinics and is currently practicing in Bathurst, NSW.
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- Dr Ryan Hislop
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Dr Ryan Hislop, is a Managing Partner of Aligned Chiro in Orange. Ryan graduated from Macquarie University in 2009 and completed his Diplomate in orthopaedics through the International Academy of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine (IANM) in 2019. He currently serves as the Oceania Board Member for the IANM and remains actively involved in advancing clinical education and standards within the profession. Ryan has a particular interest in dizziness and vestibular disorders and in 2026, he completed advanced concussion certification through the IANM.
Through his clinical practice, education, and social media platforms, Ryan is passionate about helping people better understand the connection between the brain, nervous system, and movement, while translating complex science into practical strategies that improve health and performance.
