Our Story

From an intuition to a Company

MuSclE - Medical & Sport Engineering Ltd was founded in Tuscany in January 2022 by Luca Valerio Messa and Enrico Matteo Messa, two brothers - both Biomedical Engineers - with a strong desire to get involved and a particular passion for Functional Biomechanics, Medical Sciences, Sport and Technological Innovation.

However, the story of their brand, "MUSCLE" begins much earlier: in 2008 the two brothers, still university students, realise the importance of a correct distribution of the vectors of forces even in the simplest movements, especially in physical exercise. After some analysis, paper projects and rudimentary tests, they built the first prototype of their invention: Angel's Wings.

The first EMG evaluations and the opinions of Clinicians and Sports Professionals are absolutely positive and surprising and they start asking themselves the first questions about the medical correlations of their method. Deepening their studies and their profession, a concept that is the core of all their activity becomes more and more evident: to innovate, it is necessary to start from the problems and not from the solutions.

In 2013 the Patent for Invention is recognized and they start the scientific Studies that are published on international Journals: one of the first works is carried out in collaboration with Scuderia Ferrari and its Medical Partner, Med-Ex, and involves workers, Pit-stop Technicians and Formula 1 Drivers.

After having aroused the interest of the Italian Swimming Federation, which still uses this approach in the "dry" training circuits of Olympic Champions such as Gregorio Paltrinieri, the great satisfaction arrives in 2019 when the results of a clinical study lasting 5 years and carried out at the University Hospital of Siena, which analyzes the effects of the Angel's Wings Method on people with Parkinson's disease, are published. Once again, it was a question that started it all: "how could the motor and postural problems that afflict those suffering from this disease be solved?".

The results are extremely positive, but there is more. Since the end of 2019 Enrico Matteo and Luca Valerio, who are now Professionals with a cultural and academic background combined with practice and experience, begin to want to propose their approach in a broader way: for almost every problem there is a solution, and many problems can be addressed with an "athletic" approach, just as it has been demonstrated during the work done with people with Parkinson's disease. They also decided to transmit the knowledge learned over the years and their methodological approach in a book, "The Parkinsonian Athlete - Thoughts, ideas and practical advice on the concept of 'Functional Biomechanics' in Parkinson's disease".

Many people, sportsmen and women, young and old, with postural problems or not, begin to clamor to be able to train with this simple but extraordinarily effective device, to be able to deepen this approach so exciting according to which, as it is demonstrated, even at 100 years old you can increase your physical and mental performance with targeted training and with the determination of a true athlete.

At the end of 2021 Enrico Matteo and Luca Valerio realized they wanted to develop other ideas, to have an innovative methodological approach, to be willing to spread their method acting as protagonists of their own future and change: MuSclE - Medical & Sport Engineering was born. MuSclE - Medical & Sport Engineering is a company in the field of Biomedical Engineering, Technology, Sport and Innovation that intends to develop devices, products and solutions useful to everyone and usable by many categories of people in order to improve their performance, solve small-large daily problems or find new ways by adopting an engineering approach to Medical Science and Science and Technique of Rational Movement.