Sarasota Pain Management

-Kevin M. McGaharan, M.D.                            MD-Board Certified Physical                                                                                                               Medicine and Rehabilitation Physician

Dr. Kevin McGaharan has a long history in the Sarasota Medical Community. Having come to Sarasota in 1983 after finishing a Neurosurgery residency at Ohio State University. Dr. McGaharan practiced Neurosurgery until a disabling stroke in 1987. In keeping with with his personality of patience and perseverance Dr. McGaharan proved skeptics wrong and showed that recovery from a major stroke is not beyond the grasp of someone who puts their mind to it. After a year of self designed rehabilitation he began a residency program in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Kentucky.

Dr. McGaharan returned to Sarasota in 1991 and became a provider of Rehabilitation in the Inpatient and Outpatient programs at Sarasota Memorial Hospital and The Rehabilitation Institute of Sarasota, now known as Health South. He demonstrated his skills in the rehabilitation of stroke, spinal cord and brain injury patients, as well as patients with chronic pain.

Acute and chronic pain has always been an interest of Dr. McGaharan since learning stereo tactic procedures at Ohio State to treat pain by lesioning the brain, spinal cord and spinal injections. Together with his associates they performed the first implantable pain pumps in Sarasota over 25 years ago.

Three years ago he was recruited by Geisinger Health System in Danville PA to establish an Interdisciplinary Spine program, based on evidence based medicine – a program where conservative Spine Management and alternatives to surgery were emphasized. Dr. McGaharan now returns to treat patients in Sarasota again with chronic pain and physical medicine problems in a goal directed multidisciplinary fashion including diagnosis and consultative care with other local Specialists to optimize the patient’s function through the use of medication, physical therapy, injection and surgery to reach the goal of increased function and comfort.

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