Dr. Gary L Reasor, MD

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Get to know Interventional Pain Management Physician Dr. Gary L. Reasor, who serves patients in Louisville, Kentucky.

Dr. Reasor is an interventional pain management physician who is currently serving patients at his private practice – Metro Pain Associates – in Louisville, Kentucky. There, he and his staff believe the key to pain relief is understanding and knowing that each person’s pain is unique. What works for one person may not work the same for another, which is why they use an interventional approach and practice multidisciplinary forms of treatment.

Dr. Reasor has been named Louisville Magazine’s Top Doctor for over three years and strives to restore hope in patients’ daily activities by offering the most innovative, cutting-edge and proven procedures to optimize relief.

Dr. Reasor was born in August of 1955 in St. Matthews, Kentucky. He was raised in St. Matthews, Lyndon, and Middletown. In 1973, he graduated from Eastern High School. After working one year with his father, Lloyd Reasor, who was a self-employed electrician, Dr. Reasor moved to Peru, South America, where he served a 2-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Upon returning to Louisville, he met and married his wife, Susan, in 1977. Their son, Lloyd, was born in May of 1979.

Having wanted to be a physician since he was 12 years old and with the encouragement of a family friend (Wayne Mortenson, DMD, who later built Mortenson Family Dental), Dr. Reasor enrolled in Jefferson Community College, graduating with an Associate of Science (AS) degree in 1982. He then transferred to the University of Louisville and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree with high honors in 1984. He was accepted into the University of Louisville School of Medicine that same year and went on to graduate in 1988.

Upon graduation from medical school, Dr. Reasor was accepted into the University of Louisville’s Department of Anesthesiology, where he completed a 1-year internship and a 3-year residency. It was during his residency that he became interested in the treatment of problems of pain. Upon completion of his residency, Dr. Reasor accepted a position with Hamilton Anesthesia Associates in Hamilton, Ohio, where he worked for 6 years. During this time, he completed the examinations necessary to become board certified not only in anesthesiology, but also in pain management. He became even more interested in pain management and started the pain treatment program at Fort Hamilton-Hughes Memorial Hospital.

In 1998, Dr. Reasor had the opportunity to return to Louisville to go into practice with several other physicians practicing only pain medicine. This eventually led him to go into solo private practice and to start Metro Pain Associates in 2004.

Dr. Reasor has been board certified by the following organizations: the National Board of Medical Examiners, the American Board of Pain Medicine, the American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians, and the American Board of Anesthesiology. He has also been named a Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice through the World Institute of Pain.

Interventional pain management or interventional pain medicine is a medical subspecialty which treats pain with invasive interventions such as facet joint injections, nerve blocks (interrupting the flow of pain signals along specific nervous system pathways), neuroaugmentation (including spinal cord stimulation and peripheral nerve stimulation), vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty, nucleoplasty, endoscopic discectomy, and implantable drug delivery system. As an interventional pain management physician, Dr. Reasor focuses on the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of pain. His areas of interest are minimally invasive spine surgery along with spinal cord stimulation and intrathecal drug delivery systems.

Dr. Reasor has been involved in the Boy Scouts of America, having been the scoutmaster or assistant scoutmaster of Troop 320 and having completed Wood Badge training. He also served 15 years in the Army Reserve and was called up for Operation Desert Shield-Desert Storm, serving at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas.

On a more personal note, Dr. Reasor is a fan of baseball and has had season tickets to the Louisville Bats for many years.

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