Jean-Pierre Barral DO, MRO(F), RPT, Diplomat of Osteopathy, Member of the Registre des Ostéopathes de France and Physiotherapist. He is the developer of manual therapy, which he calls Visceral Manipulation (VM). Thanks to his clinical studies with thousands of patients, he developed this method based on organ-specific fascial mobilization. Additionally, through his work in a dissection laboratory, he experimented with VM techniques and saw the internal effects of the manipulations. France, St. He was President of the International College of Osteopathy in Etienne. He also served on the faculty of Paris Nord University – Médecine de Paris Nord. While on the faculty, he served as chief of the Visceral Manipulation Section, marking the first time in the world that a VM therapist was located in a medical school.

TIME Magazine named Jean-Pierre Barral, DO, one of the Top Healing Innovators of the new millennium to watch for his development of Visceral Manipulation.

Based on his ongoing research and clinical work, Jean-Pierre Barral, in collaboration with Alain Croibier, DO, developed the additional manual therapy disciplines of Visceral Vascular Manipulation, Neural Manipulation, and New Manual Joint Approach.

Barral continues to innovate and we introduce the Manual Approach to the Brain, the latest manual therapy discipline that has been studied for decades.

Although Jean-Pierre has researched and worked with patients for more than 40 years and trained tens of thousands of therapists around the world, “we know very little; only the tissues know,” he says. As therapists, we may think we know how to help a patient, but it is only when we place our hands on the patient that the tissues show us what we need.