Breathing Pattern Disorder: A Physiotherapy Perspective

Date: Tuesday 3 February 2026, 7pm to 8pm
Speaker: Lizzie Grillo
Patient Representative: TBC

This session will cover:

• An overview of Breathing Pattern Disorder
• Current Breathing Pattern Disorder management strategies in relation to physiotherapy
• Future directions based on the latest research
• Expert patient insights

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Meet the speaker

Lizzie Grillo is an Advanced Physiotherapist at Guy's and St Thomas’s Hospital (Royal Brompton Hospital) and is completing a PhD as an NIHR Research Fellow with Imperial College London. She has over 15 years of experience working in chronic disease and has a special interest in airway clearance, breathlessness, and breathing pattern assessment. Her PhD aims to look further at BPD assessment and develop our understanding of the utility of the Breathing Pattern Assessment Tool (BPAT).

She has published several articles in this area and supported guideline development with the British Thoracic Society. She is a member of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Respiratory Care (ACPRC) and was a previous chair of this group. Additionally, she supports the Physiotherapy for Breathing Pattern special interest group in delivering their study days.