NEWPORT, Ky. — When I ask Emily Robbins what she’d be doing if I weren’t here, she responds quickly.

“Working,” she said.

Robbins is a family attorney in Newport, a job she says requires her to be on her feet a lot — a difficult job that she says has been made much more difficult because of a problem in her neck.

“I had no idea just how debilitating a neck injury could be,” Robbins said. “And so I tried everything.”

Physical therapy. Two steroid injections. Massage therapy. More medications than she can list.

She describes the way she felt like this: "My body was a broomstick and my head was a bowling ball that at any point was going to tip over."

All because of a herniated disc in her neck. Something that sent pain shooting down her arm, so much so that she once called her mom becau

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