Sports Chiropractor Martin Kumm

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Sports Chiropractor Martin Kumm

"I help top athletes reach their goals" I am based in Basel, Switzerland, but due to my work I travel all around the world. What method do I use in my work?

About me
I am Martin Kumm, I am a sports chiropractor with an academic background and more than 10 years of experience working with some of the best athletes and coaches in the world. My main goal is to help the athletes achieve their maximum potential, using a unique method that gives excellent results. The most used method of training as much and as hard as possible will usually end up getting the athlete injured and will never reach their full physical potential. Instead, recovering from that takes up precious time from actually improving the results. My approach, on the other hand, is to work smart, not hard. Despite all the technological advancements, what is often lacking in the current performance world, is smart monitoring and adjusting the training load to individual athletes' needs. Yet, there is a so-called “Green-Zone Window” for training. It's where training/racing stimulus matches neurological and tissue loading capacity - recovery exceeds tissue breakdown (optimal loading). To say it simply - this means that if an athlete is physically and mentally in the “Green Zone” the likelihood of getting injured is minimal and the highest level of performance can be expected. If an athlete trains out of the “Green-Zone Window” the body needs to start using compensatory mechanisms Which in turn and in time leads to a chronic overload which in turn ends up the athlete getting an injury. The question is, how to find the “Green-Zone Window” for each athlete, since it's very personal and depends on the person. That's exactly where I come in. What's the exact process? With athletes I work closely together I use a simple but effective protocol: Test, Treat, Leave It. Test - the simplest and quickest way to tap into their neuromuscular system is to use muscles as indicators to see what is the maximum load where the compensatory systems won't be switched on. When they do the so-called “glitch” happens by the central nervous system as a protection mechanism. It’s my job to figure out using different tests where in the system this “glitch” is and Treat it. To treat the “glitch” I use different chiropractic techniques. After finding and treating the “glitch” in the system comes the most important part - Leave It which means leaving time for the results to show. This part is where the magic happens. Athletes body needs time to react to the treatment and mostly it has 3 outcomes: Got better, stays the same, got worse. Any one of these outcomes carries a very valuable information to me. While using the same tests again I can compare and figure out if the “glitch” in the system is manifesting with the same tests or it has moved. Especially with chronic overload injuries it might take quite a long time before I have removed all the compensational “layers” and I reach to the true cause of the athletes pain. An example of a success story
In 2016 I had the honor to work with Swiss Orienteering superstar - Judith Wyder. A year before she had dominated the orienteering World Championships by winning 3 gold medals. In 2016 her body gave in and she was far from medals. Post Worlds she turned to me to figure out what had gone wrong. She was not able to lift her left leg and had upper back pain. How she still managed to even run at the Worlds beats me. MRI and X-ray scans were all unremarkable - all her doctors said she is fine. We set to work. I used the same principle - Test, Treat and Leave It. I knew as long as she is not able to lift the leg on the treatment table she's far from running. We did multiple sessions per week to monitor her progress. Within a couple of weeks her neurology started to improve. She had regained some hip muscular activity which in turn allowed her to start lifting the leg. Her muscular activity was improving, even though her pain had not changed much. For me this was all good news as 90% of the times muscle strength precedes pain. Even though pain was not completely gone she started training as our indicator muscle tests stayed strong - meaning her neuromuscular system was healed and ready for loading. Within 2 months she returned to racing pain free. Whom have I previously worked with? Teams:
-EHC Basel Ice Hockey Club
-Estonian National Ice Hockey Teams (U20/Men)
-Sm'Aesch Volleyball Team
-Education First - Easy Post Professional Cycling Team. Individual Athletes:
-Robert Rooba (Ice Hockey)
-Marko Albert (Triathlon)
-Judith Wyder (Orienteering)
-Silvan Wicki (Track and Field, sprinter)
-Alexandra Burghart (Track and Field, sprinter)
-Amelie Lederer (Track and Field, sprinter)
-Markus Fuchs (Track and Field, sprinter)
-Ivona Dadic (Track and Field, Hepatlon)
-Anu Ennok (Volleyball)
-Pascale Stöcklin (Track and Field, Pole Vault)
Danijel Vukicevic (Handball)

If you are an athlete or a coach and feel that I could be of help when reaching your goals, find my contacts on www.martinkumm.com and contact me!

24/02/2026

Cycling shoes are getting stiffer. But where does that extra load actually go? More stiffness isn’t automatically better.

It increases force transfer.
But it also shifts load.

If the ankle can’t manage it,
the knee often does.

19/02/2026

Most cyclists try to fix knee pain in isolation.

One muscle.
One stretch.
One exercise.

But pain in endurance athletes is rarely isolated.

It’s usually a load distribution issue.

When something hurts, it doesn’t automatically mean that tissue is the problem.

Medial knee pain?
Often blamed on hamstrings or VMO.

But the real question is:

What changed in the system?

Volume?
Intensity?
Cadence?
Run load added?
Recovery reduced?

If you don’t test properly, you optimise blindly.
And if you optimise blindly, performance suffers.

That’s exactly why I built the
T → O → P framework

Test.
Optimise.
Perform.

Fixing isolated parts rarely solves performance problems.

Structured thinking does.

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If this resonates, comment “TEST” and I’ll send you something useful.

17/02/2026

This exercise won’t fix your pain.

But it can help.

What it gives you:
Access.
Strength.
Control.

What it doesn’t change:
Load.
Recovery.
Timing.

Access alone doesn’t solve pain.

If the context doesn’t change,
pain usually comes back.

Exercises support better decisions.
They don’t replace them.

Start with readiness.
Free Knee Readiness Guide → link in bio.

15/02/2026

Oman dump.

Early mornings.
Long transfers.
Quiet work behind the scenes.

Grateful for the experience.
Back home.

12/02/2026

Pain is normal in pro cycling.
That doesn’t mean it should be normal for you.

Pros are managed full-time.
Most amateurs copy pro behaviour — without pro support.

Pain isn’t toughness.
It’s information.

Adjust early.
Before pain becomes chronic.

Knee Readiness Guide ↓

11/02/2026

Same brain.
Same obsession with systems.
Just illustrated this time.

10/02/2026

Pain is part of professional cycling.
But that doesn’t mean it should be normal for everyone else.

At the highest level, discomfort is often tolerated to perform.
For everyday cyclists, pain is usually a signal that load, recovery, and readiness aren’t aligned.

You don’t need to suffer to improve.
You need a better understanding of how your system handles load.
That’s what I help cyclists understand —
before pain becomes the reason they stop riding.

Knee Readiness Guide → link in bio.

07/02/2026

Most cycling conversations jump straight to the knee.
Sometimes the hip.
Almost never the ankle.

That’s a problem.

Because the ankle isn’t just a hinge.
It’s part of a load-management system that decides how force travels up the chain.

If the ankle can’t:
– control stiffness
– adapt under fatigue
– manage force timing

…the knee will.

Not because it’s weak.
But because the system needs somewhere to put the load.

That’s why:
• isolated joint fixes
• local pain treatments
• chasing symptoms

rarely hold long-term.

Hip. Knee. Ankle.
One system. One problem. One solution.

If knee pain keeps coming back,
stop asking where it hurts
and start asking where load control breaks down.

👉 I’ve put this into a short, practical Knee Readiness Guide
Link in bio.

05/02/2026

Most cycling pain isn’t a joint problem.
It’s a load management problem.

The knee, hip or ankle is rarely the issue on its own.
They’re part of a system that has to control force, repetition and fatigue — every pedal stroke.

When that system struggles, pain shows up somewhere.
Not because that joint is “weak”,
but because it’s compensating.

This is why isolated fixes so often fail.
They treat the signal, not the system.

03/02/2026

Why does no one talk about ankles in cycling?

Because they rarely hurt.
And when they do, the problem usually shows up somewhere else.

Think about it:
• single-leg balance on the ground
• bottom pedal stroke on the bike

Same task. Same demand.

When ankle control drops, the system adapts.
And most of the time, the knee pays the price.

This is why knee pain in cycling rarely makes sense when you look at one joint in isolation.

Hip. Knee. Ankle.
One system.

If you want to understand this before pain forces you to change your training,
I’ve broken it down in a short, practical Knee Readiness Guide.

👉 Link in bio

29/01/2026

The knee doesn’t work in isolation.

In cycling, the hip plays a major role in how load is controlled from above.
When hip control or capacity drops — especially as training volume or intensity increases — the knee often becomes the place where symptoms show up.

That’s why:
• strengthening one muscle isn’t enough
• stretching where it hurts rarely solves the problem
• and pain disappearing doesn’t always mean the system is ready

Knee issues make more sense when you stop looking at joints in isolation.
Hip. Knee. Ankle.
One system.

If you’re dealing with knee pain — or trying to stay ahead of it this season — I’ve put together a short, practical Knee Readiness Guide that breaks this system down clearly.

👉 Free download via the link in my bio.

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Reinacherstrasse 116
Basel
4053

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http://www.humanrx.ch/

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