More than 100 million Americans wake up every morning with back or neck pain — that deep, stabbing, or burning agony that steals sleep, ruins careers, and turns simple movements into torture. Most suffer for years on pain pills, physical therapy that fails, and doctors who “don’t do spines” because they never see the one physician who can actually fix it: a fellowship-trained orthopedic spine surgeon. These elite surgeons use 3T MRI, robotic navigation, and 20+ years of spine