Connect and Learn - Concussion & Women's Health - Orange

About this session

Connect and Learn – Concussion & Women’s Health – Orange Join us for our first Connect and 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