Our knowledge of the human body and of its mechanisms originates from 203 scientific publications of professor Carmelo Bosco many of which top international scientific journals, and from quotations in some of the most important exercise physiology books such as the classic Astrand-Rodahl Textbook of Work Physiology. 

Our culture, our values are not driven simply by a company mission' or `vision' but rather they emerge as natural consequences of our origins, of countless conferences, hours and hours of debates, discussions until late evening with many, many scientists from all over the world. Therefore for us research and development are not simply elements of a calculated business strategy. They are a choice of life and a reason of being.

The research of Carmelo Bosco covers a wide area of exercise and performance physiology reaching the area of health and prevention. His work unfolds around a central interest for the neuro-muscular system, the interaction between the nervous system and the muscle at the basis of any human movement.

From this central interest in the years Bosco extended his field of research: from muscular mechanics to energetic metabolism; from neuromuscular activity to hormonal responses to physical exercise; from biomechanics of movement to methodology of training; from the studies on fatigue to the discovery of vibrations as a training method and as a prevention tool of important diseases such as osteoporosis.

Professor Bosco formed himself in the great physiology school of Northern Europe, Finland in particular, inspired by fathers of physiology and modern Biology like Bernard, Darwin and Selye. But Bosco has always been an outsider, a misfit constantly aiming at breaking myths and changing the status quo. Never satisfied with the level of knowledge, always convinced that there was something more to understand, some unexplored area to discover, never he accepted to sit on his laurels.

For this reason perhaps his many movements, the countless engagements with professional teams and more recently his great interest in using physiology of sports to create the future science of health. After his premature death, together with his body of knowledge, this is the challenge that he left in heritage to us.  

..."You must know that medicine, medical science is born from the study of pathology and not of the healthy human being. Health has been defined by medicine simply through the removal of disease. But we know the healthy body, we study how to improve its performance, we know what it takes, not simply to remove disease, but to preserve an equilibrium of well-being. Therefore we have a great responsibility to adapt this knowledge and to make it available not only to athletes but to all. And we know that it's not enough to simply say go jogging, lift some weights, do this exercise.

Clear and serious answers are needed. Why at that speed? Why 10 times and not twenty? Why when we need a therapy we look for a doctor and for an exercise prescription we trust anyone, improvised gurus, businessmen masked as experts. It is the body of the people at stake, without mentioning the psycho-physical well-being. Here's why only a minority of people perform regular exercise. Only through serious answers people can be convinced. And this is exactly why I believe sports science can have a great role. We are those who have the knowledge to give the right answers not only to the ones that make sports their profession but above all to everybody that wants to use exercise to feel well. In an aging world these competences can become fundamental in order to assure well-being, independence and quality of life to millions of people." ...

Carmelo Bosco mostly worked in Finland as a researcher in the laboratory of Sports Biology at the University Of Jyvaskyla and as the Director of the Laboratory of Biomechanics and Physiology of Sports in Kuortane, in those years the main centre for the physical preparation of most of the Finnish elite athletes.

In this phase the scientific activity focuses on muscular mechanics and the effects of pre-stretching. A fundamental discovery in 1982 is that pre-stretching allows the accumulation of elastic energy in the muscle improving the performance in the positive phase of muscular work (Bosco et al., Int J Med Sport, 3, 1982). (Bosco et al., Acta Physiol Scand, 128, 1986).

This was demonstrated for fast fibres as well as for slow ones depending on the speed and amplitude of the movement. (Bosco et al.,Acta Physiol Scand, 116, 1982). This research, together with the studies carried out in Russia in the sixties, allowed the development of plyometric training, widely used today in the world of sports.

Basically pre-stretching determines a greater activation of the central nervous system allowing to optimise the training methodology (Bosco and Viitasalo, Electromyogr. Clin Neurophysiol 22, 1982; Forest, in: Biomechanics XB, 1987).

From an application point of view from these studies originates the battery of tests known as "Bosco Tests" used today all over the world. At the beginning of the eighties Bosco invents and patents two innovative systems for physical evaluation known as Ergo-Jump and Ergo-Power that in a simple and not invasive manner allow the measurement of power output and muscular work during physical exercises of different nature.

In the following years these two products have been integrated in a new version known as Muscle-Lab that includes synchronised electromyography making possible the study of the electric answer of working muscles. In the years these products became precious instruments for many physiologists, coaches and athletes optimising physical testing, the planning of training and the prevention of injuries.

In this phase the research of Bosco extends to muscular efficiency, energetic metabolism, hormonal response to exercise and the effects of gravitational force on the human body (Bosco, Acta Physiol Scand 124, 1985).

Systemic and holistic aspects of the response to physical exercise start being the main scientific interest of professor Bosco. The axis of research is moved towards the creation of new personalised methodologies of training and progressively on how these methodologies can be used not only to improve performance but also health of us all. While continuing to teach in Finland, Bosco becomes full professor at the Semmelweis University in Budapest, one of the most prestigious and old Central European Universities, dedicated to Ignaz Semmelweis, that in 1847 identified the causes of puerperal fever in women and was disregarded by the medical community for his revolutionary ideas. A profitable cooperation starts with the Professor Atko Viru, one of the worlds top experts of the relationship between hormones and exercise. This opens the door to the understanding of the long term adaptation to exercise mediated by hormones, an essential aspect in order to develop new and more effective training methodologies and equipment. It is during this phase that two fundamental aspects of the hormonal response to exercise are brought to light.

Thanks to the development and the validation of a new dynamometer named Muscle-LAB (Bosco et al., Eur J Appl Occup Physiol 70, 1995) it has been possible to measure muscular work during exercise and to observe the different hormonal answers caused by various speeds of execution. Movements with elevated power output, executed at high speed, stimulate testosterone, while strength movements with high loads and low speed induce the production of growth hormone.

Moreover it became evident that testosterone, always considered a hormone regulating protein synthesis, is in reality related to speed of movement and to muscular contraction through an action on the calcium pump. (Bosco and Viru Biology of Sport, 5, 1998; Bosco et al., Med Sci Sport Exerc, 32, 2000).

These researches gradually supplied an amount of knowledge allowing the development of new and complex physical training methods.

The interest that Bosco had since 1992 (Belli and Bosco, Acta Physiol Scand 144, 1992) for the muscular response to mechanical stimulation, coupled with the more recent studies on hormones, paved the way to his last research topic: vibration, a force which we are unconsciously constantly exposed to.

"Running, hunting, fighting, playing the drums and dancing, navigating the oceans, cutting trees and giving life to the first villages or travelling in a high speed train, men since always have been exposed to thousand types of vibration". 

The concept of Neuro-Muscular Mechanical Stimulation (NEMES) is based on this brilliant intuition on how to use existing natural forces to improve our condition. Today this is the name of one of our innovative product lines based on the use of mechanical vibrations. Quickly a number of researches demonstrated the extraordinary effectiveness of this method bringing though also to light the importance of dosing the stimulation and the protocols on the base of highly individually characterized responses (Bosco et al., Biology of Sport, 15, 1998) (Bosco et al., Eur J Appl Physiol 79, 1999(Bosco et al., Clincal Physiol, 19, 1999) (Bosco et al., Eur J Appl Physiol, 81, 2000)

And it is through these last researches that the patent that differentiates the NEMES products originates. The NEMES products are the only machines in the world equiped with an advanced system able to detect the muscular response to vibration through electromyography (EMG) and to identify the optimal vibration frequency for each subject.

From the studies on vibration emerges also the great stimulation that this method induces on bone tissue making it an optimal candidate for the prevention and cure of pathologies like osteoporosis. These studies open the road to a definition of new methodologies of training based on deep physiological knowledge.

The research at Boscosystem s.r.l. starts from this basis today in order to develop a completely new methodology that puts at the centre the human being and his needs and starts from this to build the equipment and methods. It is not simply a change from mass to individualized fitness but more from a fitness organized around the products and the gyms to one created around the people.

It is the final users, you, guiding us in the creation of our products and methodologies.

With Boscosystem it will not be you having to adapt to our products but us adapting our products to your needs.