Deandre Z. is an engineer and a fitness enthusiast. He is the kind of person who solves problems for a living. For 15 years, he also lived with chronic lower back pain. "I just decided that I'm going to accept pain," he told us. It is a sentence worth sitting with. Not because it is unusual, but because it is not. Deandre's reasoning was the same reasoning most people land on. Back pain is common. The fixes are not always obvious. The clinic visits, the insurance calls, the h
