OptiZone SA

OptiZone safeguards the most valuable assets of sports clubs: their players. While players are multi-million-euro financial assets of the sport clubs, their health management remains reactive and inefficient​. Only in top-tier European football, the cost of injuries exceeds CHF 3 billion annually. A single Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) tear represents a multi-million euro loss for a club, factoring in salaries, medical costs, team underperformance, and player value depreciation. The existing solutions (GPS, video analysis, heart rate, etc.) measure external workload, but they are blind to the internal biomechanical mechanisms that are the direct cause of over 80% of non-contact ACL injuries. While majority of ACL injuries are preventable, existing preventive strategies are often ineffective in practice, as they take valuable time, lack individualization, and increase players’ workload, while fatigue itself is another risk factor.

OptiZone bridges this gap with a unique wearable technology. We are the only solution capable of estimating the "dynamic knee valgus loading" on the field. No matter the contributing factor, whether stress, fatigue, poor sleep, nutrition, or physical deficits, the mechanism of ACL rupture remains the same: Dynamic Knee Valgus Loading. Our AI-powered platform analyzes data from wearable sensors to:

1.         Identify high-risk players.

2.       Diagnose the source of the risk (e.g., technique, fatigue, muscle strength).

3.       Recommend personalized and targeted prevention plans.

The ROI is direct and massive: preventing a single major injury can fund our solution for the entire club for several years. Our solution has been trusted and validated by FIFA Medical Center of Excellence with 1’540 professional players involved in two years. Only during the last season in Swiss Super League we prevented two ACL injuries and reduced the time lost from two years to nine months.

We start with elite football club, then we expand it to other sports. The next target is a medical application for patients with knee osteoarthritis, and then a simpler version as an accessory to smart watch that could address the concerns of the active population who are concerned about knee pain.