Tsukasa Kumai

Professor Tsukasa Kumai is a Professor of Orthopedics in the Faculty of Sport Sciences at Waseda University in the heart of Tokyo Japan.

Since 2017 and after serving as a professor at the Department of Sports Medicine at Nara Medical University, Dr. Kumai has been involved in education and research in sports medicine and in the functional anatomy of motor organs at the School of Sport Sciences at Waseda University. Based on his basic research at the Musculoskeletal Biology and Sports Medicine Research Lab at the University of Wales, UK, and the Department of Anatomy at the University of Munich, Germany, he has been elucidating and applying functional anatomy to the treatment of tendon and ligament overuse disorders in athletes. In clinical practice, he specializes in minimally invasive treatment of foot disorders in athletes, including arthroscopic surgery and extracorporeal shock wave therapy, for which he is a pioneer in Japan. He still performs more than 200 arthroscopic surgeries per year.