By Karen Asp Say you’ve been spending a lot of time (or all your time) at home recently, and a new issue has popped up: Your back has begun aching. Is it coincidence, or could your new stay-at-home life be causing issues? It may be the latter. Since the pandemic, “we’ve seen a high incidence of complaints of neck and back pain,” says Dr. Brian A. Cole, an orthopedic surgeon at Englewood Spine Associates in Englewood, N.J.