About

Gail P. Wetzler, PT, DPT

Gail Wetzler is the Director of Curriculum for the Barral Institute. She owns an integrative physical therapy practice in Denver, Colorado, where they treat orthopedic, fascial/muscular/soft tissue, neurologic, pain, respiratory, digestive, TBI, as well as women's and men's health issues. After receiving her initial degree in physical therapy, she developed her own private practice, at which time she received a large number of head, neck and TMJ pain patients. This became a driver to learn more about cranial osteopathy, craniosacral therapy and how the fields of physical therapy and dentistry could collaborate to help these patients. She focused her continuing education in the science and art of human movement and function. She studied with Travell and Simons, Mennell, Kaltenborn, Maitland, McKenzie, Mitchell, Jones, Greenman, Upledger, and more. As she pursued continuing education classes in CranioSacral Therapy with Dr. John E. Upledger, he inspired her to learn more about the different systems in the body and how they all integrated for function. During one of her earlier speaking engagements for the Upledger Institute International (Beyond the Dura Conference), she met Jean Pierre Barral, DO, who inspired the importance of anatomy, the ability to listen to the body and the specificity of tissue dialogue in manual therapy techniques. She has followed his mentoring into understanding the body's deeper fascial relationship of the viscera, vascular, neurological and manual articular systems since 1989. Gail has been an instructor for the Barral Institute (BI) since 1991 and became the BI Curriculum Director in 2001. Gail earned her Diplomate from the Barral Institute in 2005. She earned her Equine Diplomate in Osteopathy from Vluggen Institute of Equine Osteopathy in 2009, and earned her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Rosalind Franklin University, Chicago, in 2013. In her career, she has been invited to speak at multiple professional conferences includi