He developed the modality of Visceral Manipulation based on his innovative theory that each internal organ rotates on a physiological axis. In collaboration with Alain Croibier, D.O. Jean-Pierre Barral has also developed the modalities of Neural Manipulation and New Manual Articular Approach based on their on-going clinical research.

For forty years, he has had his practice in Grenoble, France as he has always given preference to working with his patients – he likes to repeat: “It’s in treating patients and learning endless anatomy that you become a real professional”. Previously he taught just one seminar per month, but recently he sold his practice in order spent more time teaching and writing books.

Jean-Pierre Barral is also a registred physical therapist.

Here is a list of books authored or co-authored by Jean-Pierre Barral:

• The Diagnosis of Vertebral Joints, with Jean-Paul Mathieu et Pierre Mercier, Deverlaque
• Visceral Manipulation, with Pierre Mercier, Elsevier
• Visceral Manipulation II
• The Thorax
• Urogenital Manipulation, Deverlaque
• Manual Thermal Diagnosis
• An Osteopathic Approach to Trauma: Focus on Whiplash, with Croibier
• Manual Therapy for the Peripheral Nerves, with Croibier, Elsevier
• Manual Therapy for the Cranial Nerves, with Croibier, Elsevier
• Understanding the Messages of Your Body, Albin Michel
• Understanding the Messages of Your Joints
• Visceral Vascular Manipulation, with Croibier, Elsevier
• New Manual Articular Approach: Upper Body, with Croibier, Elsevier
• New Manual Articular Approach: Lower Body, with Croibier, Elsevier (2012)
• New Manual Articular Approach: Spine and Cranium, with Croibier (2013)

Jean-Pierre Barral – DO, MRO(F), PT