What is respiratory physiotherapy?

With extensive clinical experience in managing chronic lung disease, our outpatient physiotherapy team provides tailored, individualised assessments to meet each patient’s unique needs. In addition to offering specialist interventions for the long-term management of chronic conditions, our treatment plans are centred around preventing secondary lung and heart complications.


Managing and optimising conditions

Our team assesses and supports patients’ rehabilitation for a range of conditions including:


Personalised treatment

Our physiotherapy team is dedicated to providing personalized care, ensuring that each patient receives the most appropriate treatment for their condition. Our goal is to enhance quality of life and maximize each patient’s potential through a range of tailored treatments, including:

Specialised respiratory treatments include:

  • long-term oxygen assessment and prescription
  • ambulatory oxygen assessment and prescription
  • drug response assessments for mucolytics and/or nebulised antibiotics
  • advanced airway clearance techniques (ACT) through breathing strategies, positioning, and respiratory adjuncts
  • individualised escalation ACT plans during an exacerbation.
  • breathlessness management strategies

Your health is our priority

Our respiratory physiotherapy clinics are available at 77 Wimpole Street, Royal Brompton Hospital and Harefield Hospital.

Short-notice, remote or in-person appointments are available, upon consultant referral. Referrers should provide a clinic letter with relevant test results.



Our specialists

Ms Shauna Sheridan (MSc, BSc) is a highly experienced clinical specialist respiratory physiotherapist. After graduating from Trinity College Dublin and completing core physiotherapy rotations, she dedicated several years to practicing as a respiratory physiotherapist at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London. During this period, she further advanced her expertise by completing a master’s degree in Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy at University College London.

Shauna is deeply committed to supporting individuals with chronic lung disease, working to improve their quality of life. Her professional dedication and enthusiasm are evident through her active involvement in research & development, which she has presented at both national and international forums, including the prestigious European Respiratory Society conferences.

Her specialists areas of interests are:

  • airway clearance techniques
  • cough assessment and augmentation

Contact us

Call us on 020 3131 5130 to book your appointment today.

Alternatively, fill in our online enquiry form below and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

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