Dr. Faris Arab

I have spent 14 years treating musculoskeletal pain — spines, shoulders, hips and knees — first in Jeddah, then across hospitals in New Delhi, and since 2016 at the rehabilitation and stem-cell centre I founded there.

My clinical work runs from post-stroke and spinal-injury rehabilitation at IBS Cybernics Hospital, to supervising a surgical exchange programme that cared for more than 1,500 international patients, to the orthopedic and sports cases I see today.

In 2018 I started publishing what I was explaining in the clinic. Sukon Med has since grown to more than 706 episodes and an audience of 2.5 million, and it is where most of the people I now consult first met me.

Teaching at that distance also made me think hard about its limits. I set that out in a book chapter on tele-rehabilitation — remote assessment, exercise prescription, wearable technology, AI-assisted movement analysis — whose argument is that technology should extend clinical care, not replace clinical reasoning. Remote assessment has real limits, and practising safely at a distance means recognising when a case needs an in-person examination or a referral instead.

The consultation is where that turns into something specific to you: your history, your imaging, your movement, and a plan you can actually follow at home.