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Osteopathy, dry needling and exercise rehabilitation for spinal pain, headaches and sporting injury.

16/12/2025

What is the purpose of inflammation?

The purpose of acute inflammation is to remove the cause of injury and initiate repair.

Acute inflammation is a defensive, vascular response to pain or injury. It mobilises the necessary cells and molecules from our circulation to the site where they are needed.

These cells serve to remove the initial cause of injury and clean up the debris associated with cell death or tissue damage.

This early clean-up response is needed to make way for the formation of new and healthy tissue at the site of repair.

Under normal circumstances, we can leave inflammation to do its job. Provided we don’t exacerbate the injury further, the inflammatory response will subside within days to weeks as the tissue repairs fully.

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09/12/2025

Running is one of the most effective ways to look after your cardiovascular health, and even small amounts can make a big difference.

Studies suggests that even just a little running is associated with a lower risk of all-cause mortality and a lower risk or cardiovascular disease.

Regular running improves your heart and lungs: it strengthens the heart muscle, improves blood vessel function and circulation, boosts oxygen delivery (VO₂ max) and lowers resting heart rate.

Running is also linked to better long-term health outcomes, such as a lower risk of heart disease, stroke and improved longevity

Whether you’re squeezing in a quick jog between chores or finishing a strength session with a gentle run, even brief or moderate efforts have proven value.

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04/12/2025

🔷 The immune system’s 3 lines of defence 🔷

In order to understand inflammation, we need to understand the immune system first.

There are three primary lines of defence that protect us against foreign invaders. These are:

1. Physical barrier and chemical barriers
2. Non-specific internal defences
3. The adaptive immune response

The first line of defence prevents pathogens entering the body in the first place. This includes our skin, our mucous membranes, secretions such as tears and saliva, and our stomach acid.

The second line of defence is a series of non-specific responses that target any foreign invader, regardless of type. It is referred to as our innate immune response. Inflammation is part of this second line of defence. It begins when immune cells sense distress signals from damaged or dying cells, triggering inflammation to contain and repair the injury.

The third line of defence (adaptive immune response) learns and remembers. Specialised cells identify specific pathogens, destroy infected cells and produce antibodies tailored to the invader. Memory cells remain after the infection, ensuring a faster, stronger response if the same threat returns.

How cool is that!?

02/12/2025

What do you think of when you hear the word ‘inflammation’?

For many people their immediate response is that inflammation is negative – you might be thinking ‘pain’, ‘ageing’ or ‘disease’.

But did you know that inflammation is actually an important part of our body’s immune response AGAINST injury and infection?

While sometimes uncomfortable, this acute inflammation is a protective mechanism and a VITAL part of the healing process.

The negative problems we associate with inflammation are when it overreacts, overstaying its welcome and become chronic inflammation.

20/11/2025

For our next series we will be deep diving on acute inflammation as it relates to musculoskeletal injury, and the role it plays in healing and recovery.

We can’t wait to get into the detail of how inflammation works and we think you’ll learn a lot during this series.

Stay tuned!

18/11/2025

Our philosophy at Form Osteopathy…

We believe in listening to our clients’ needs and goals, and understand that everybody is different - with different lifestyles and personal preferences.

Some clients want to understand the mechanisms of their condition; for others they want peace of mind from a professional that their pain isn’t an indication of something more sinister. Some clients want active solutions outside of treatment to help the healing process, and others simply prefer more treatment sessions even though they know therapeutic exercises would speed up their recovery.

There are a range of ways that clients want to engage with osteopathy and understanding each clients’ unique needs is an essential part of our approach.

We also place much importance on communication with the other professionals caring for our clients. Knowing when to refer a client for imaging, to communicate with their GP, to discuss exercise protocol with their PT or refer to a specialist is an essential part in caring for our clients’ overall wellbeing.

If a client has a strong exercise background, we can modify training programs to assist in recovery – whether this be specific exercise modifications, regression or progression exercises to return the client to full mobility. Likewise, we guide our clients with no exercise experience through the rehabilitation process to ensure they feel comfortable and know what they are doing.

If you want to learn more about who we are and our philosophy, visit formosteopathy.com

13/11/2025

With a lot of new followers, we thought it was high time to re-introduce our principal osteopath

🔷 Career journey 🔷

Timothy Morris is an AHPRA registered practitioner and completed his Bachelor of Applied Science and a Masters of Osteopathy at RMIT University in Melbourne.

Tim’s spent his graduate year working at a busy osteopathy clinic in Townsville. After this time, he moved to the Gold Coast and worked as an associate at Spine + Body for several years. He also worked at various allied health clinics in Brisbane and northern NSW, and in aged care, growing his knowledge.

From this point, Tim started what is now known as Form Osteopathy. The goal of Form Osteopathy is to deliver osteopathy services that represent his beliefs in healthcare. This journey culminated in Tim taking that next step and establishing Form Osteopathy at its current location at 91 Upton Street, Bundall.

Tim has experience working with Olympic level athletes in the field of athletics, swimming and surfing. He has also supported Queensland Basketball during their National Championships campaigns.

🔷 Tim's treatment approach 🔷

Tim is an experienced hands-on practitioner and takes a holistic view of osteopathy. He places significant value on explaining the nature of pain and empowers his patients to make lifestyle changes that will assist with recovery.

Tim is highly experienced in:

- Soft tissue massage techniques
- Joint manipulation
- Stretching
- Dry needling
- Patient education
- Exercise prescription

Tim enjoys treating all presentations of musculoskeletal injury and has a special interest in running injuries, training-related injuries (i.e. gym), headaches and vertigo. He has worked with individuals of all ages and injury presentations.

🔷 Tim's treatment approach 🔷

Outside of osteopathy, Tim strives to lead a balanced life, spending time with friends, cooking, hiking, mountain biking, and visiting family in Melbourne. Those that know him well knows he is also a bit of a film buff. He can be found at a BFT studio training most days.

07/11/2025

🔷 Are you an allied health professional looking to join a team? We’d love to hear from you 🔷

We’re always looking for opportunities to partner with allied health professionals to offer more to our clients.

If you feel your allied health service would complement our offering and add value to our clients, we’d love to hear from you! Please reach out via DM or email info@formosteopathy.com

06/11/2025

✨ 5 key takeaways from the Osteo Sports Network Sport Medicine Summit ✨

We are dropping our 5 key takeaways from the Osteo Sports NetworkOsteo Sports Network summit – our final takeaway is if looking to lose weight, focus on fibre…

5. Weight loss? Focus on fibre

Dieting can be a challenge and there are many different dieting techniques that work for different individuals. We found this study mentioned by one of the speakers from the summit really interesting and a simple strategy for assisting with weight loss.

For those looking to lose weight, one study suggests that simply aiming to eat 30 grams of fibre each day can help you lose weight, lower your blood pressure and improve your body’s response to insulin just as effectively as a more complicated diet.

30/10/2025

✨ 5 key takeaways from the Osteo Sports Network Sport Medicine Summit ✨

We are dropping our 5 key takeaways from the summit – coming up next is Elmiron injections…

3. Elmiron injections

There’s ongoing research into injections of Pentosan Polysulfate (Elmiron) to lower blood lipid levels. This is due to a link between dyslipidaemia (low or elevated lipids in the blood) and osteoarthritis.

It is also believed that Elmiron may reduce inflammation in the joints by modulating cytokines and enzymes that degrade cartilage.

Elmiron is another example of a drug that has long had use in one area, but researchers have since realised it’s impact on other conditions (like Ozempic traditionally being used for diabetes and now also for weight loss).

Traditionally Elmiron was used to manage high cholesterol, but it seems to also inhibit pro-inflammatory enzymes/substances.

Now researchers are trialling it for people with osteoarthritis as an intramuscular injection to help with pain.

It is generally a very safe product that is potentially helpful in several ways.

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91 Upton Street
Bundall, QLD
4217

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+61755316422

Website

https://www.formosteopathy.com/

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