Areas of Expertise
The Air Physiotherapy team specialises in the following areas:
- Long-COVID
- Breathing pattern disorders
- Hyperventilation syndrome
- Management of chronic lung disease
- Pulmonary rehabilitation
- Airway clearance
- Upper airway dysfunction
Practice times at OneWelbeck Lung Health
- Mondays 8am to 7pm
- Tuesdays 9am to 1pm
- Wednesdays 8.30am to 1.30pm
- Fridays 8am to 12pm
Meet the team
Emily Lockwood
The founder of Air Physiotherapy, Emily, has ten years experience in the field and has worked at the UK’s leading heart and lung hospital, The Royal Brompton Hospital, since 2012. She has a wealth of experience treating patients with breathing problems and lung conditions and set up Air Physiotherapy in 2017.
Her clinical experience lies within the management of chronic respiratory conditions and identifying and treating breathing pattern disorders. She has a specialist interest in complex breathing disorders and causes of breathlessness.
Karen Dobson
Karen qualified as a physiotherapist 14 years ago and specialised in cardio-respiratory physiotherapy early in her career.
Over the past 12 years she has undertaken roles in world class institutions such as the Harefield and The Royal Brompton Hospitals where she gained valuable experience in complex causes of breathlessness, complex airway clearance and the long-term management of chronic respiratory conditions.
Holly Patterson
Holly has 10 years of experience, 6 of which have specialised in the care of respiratory patients. She moved to London from the North of England to work for The Royal Brompton Hospital as a highly specialist respiratory physiotherapist. Here she worked in both the inpatient and outpatients teams, treating patients with long term respiratory conditions including Bronchiectasis, ILD, dysfunctional breathing, complex asthma and upper airway disorders (such as induced laryngeal obstruction and large airways collapse).
Stephanie Grefsheim
Stephanie started her physiotherapy career at Harefield Hospital after working for many years as a healthcare consultant in pharmaceutical reimbursement in the United States. She completed rotations at her local hospital before moving to the Royal Brompton Hospital where she specialised in respiratory physiotherapy.
Stephanie has worked with both adults and children with chronic respiratory conditions and specialised in outpatient respiratory care, regularly seeing patients with COPD, bronchiectasis, asthma, breathing pattern disorders and ILD.
Lizzie Grillo
Lizzie is a highly specialist physiotherapist who has worked in chronic respiratory conditions for over 15 years at a specialist tertiary hospital – The Royal Brompton in London.
She has extensive experience in the management of respiratory conditions, in particular – complex airway clearance techniques and breathing pattern disorders, including hyperventilation syndrome and upper airway conditions (exercise induced laryngeal obstruction and excessive dynamic airway collapse).
Helen Lammin
