A quiet physiotherapy and nutrition practice in the heart of Milan. Honest assessments, considered hands, and the patience to work with the body rather than against it. No shortcuts, no formulas.
We chose early on to be a small practice with clear principles, rather than a clinic that sees everyone. That choice shapes everything — the hour you're given, the questions we ask, the treatments we recommend.
If we don't think a course of treatment is the right fit, we'll say so. Sometimes the most useful hour is the one spent redirecting you to the right specialist — or simply saying, rest.
Every first visit begins seated, not on the table. We want to understand how the problem behaves through your day, what you've already tried, and what you're working toward. Hands come after.
We are not the cheapest studio in Milan, and it isn't our ambition to be. We'd rather see fewer patients well than many in a rush. Each session is a full hour, held by one therapist, start to finish.
The body knows how to heal. Our work is to listen carefully enough to understand what's getting in its way — and then, gently, to remove it. Curare, non trattare.
We don't treat symptoms in isolation. Whether you arrive with a herniated disc, lingering tendonitis, or a body that simply feels out of rhythm — you'll be met with the full toolkit, drawn on selectively.
Fine-hook palpation that releases the connective tissue enveloping muscle — particularly effective for tennis elbow, chronic strains, and stubborn tendinopathies that have outlasted rest.
A graded series of movements that restore glide to nerves entrapped by surrounding tissue. Often the missing piece for sciatica, thoracic outlet, and post-surgical nerve tension.
Structured sessions to retrain how the body organises itself under gravity. The single most cost-effective thing most patients can do — and the easiest to overlook.
A quieter, more precise approach to core work — lowering intra-abdominal pressure while activating the pelvic floor. Particularly valued post-partum and post-surgical.
The everyday work: disc protrusions and hernias, sprains, post-surgical stiffness, osteoarthritis, back pain, and the dozen small injuries that quietly accumulate in a lifetime.
Personalised nutritional consultation, working alongside physical treatment when useful. Inflammation, recovery, body composition — addressed from the inside rather than bolted on.
The studio sits inside a nineteenth-century building a few minutes from Porta Genova and Sant'Agostino — high ceilings, mouldings kept intact, soft northern light through tall windows. We preserved what was beautiful and added only what treatment actually needs.
No open-plan gym floor, no overlapping appointments. You arrive, you're the only patient in your therapist's day for that hour, and the space reflects that.
Gianluca founded Alma in 2015 after a decade in larger clinics, where he felt the economics of volume were quietly pulling treatment away from what actually works. He wanted the time to sit with a case before diagnosing it, and the freedom to send a patient elsewhere when that was the right call.
His approach is concrete: evaluation first, honest conversation, then a plan you understand and agree with. He works particularly well with patients who've been told there's nothing more to do — and with athletes looking to stay ahead of injury rather than chase it.
Outside the studio, he runs in the Parco Sempione, reads more Borges than he should, and makes the coffee that his patients argue about.
Most of our patients arrive through a recommendation from another. Here are a few of the notes they've sent back — edited for length, used with permission.
After eighteen months of sciatica and three other clinics, I walked out of my first visit with a plan that actually made sense. Six weeks later I was running again. Gianluca is the rare practitioner who listens longer than he talks.
I came in for a shoulder, we ended up fixing my gait. That's what I value most — the willingness to zoom out when the obvious answer isn't the real one. Every session has felt like progress, not just activity.
Post-partum, nothing had worked for the diastasis until I tried hypopressives here. What I didn't expect was how carefully the sessions were paced — never pushed, never rushed. I feel stronger than I did before the pregnancy.
Five minutes from the Porta Genova metro, ten from the Navigli. If you're driving, there's metered parking on Via Panzeri itself — bring enough for an hour.
A first visit lasts a full hour and ends with either a clear plan or, sometimes, a referral to someone better suited. No packages to sign, no pressure to return.