Mays and Schnapp Pain Clinic History and Background

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With more than 65 combined years of experience, Dr. Kit Mays and Dr. Moacir Schnapp have pioneered the way for the care and management of pain.

The History
Read about how the partnership of Dr. Mays and Dr. Schnapp created the Pain Clinic and Rehabilitation Center 15 years ago.

Dr. Kit Mays,
an anesthesiologist, established the Mid-South's first pain clinic at the University of Tennessee, where he served as director.

Dr. Moacir Schnapp,
a neurologist, specialized in pain management and became the second director of the University of Tennessee's Pain clinic.

Celebrating 28 years of teamwork and providing pain relief and restoring function to thousands of patients.

Their collaboration began in 1979 at the University of Tennessee. In 1983, Dr. Mays and Dr. Schnapp formed a lasting partnership, forming a private practice near the Baptist Memorial Hosiptal Medical Center downtown.

Dr. Mays, an anesthesiologist, acted as the first Medical Director of the University of Tennessee Pain Clinic, which was the second of only two in the country at the time.

Dr. Schnapp, with a background in neurology, soon became the second medical director at the University of Tennessee's pain clinic. Ten years later, they opened the Mays & Schnapp Pain Clinic and Rehabilitation Center. For 28 years, they have been in practice together.

The first CARF-accredited pain clinic in North America, and the only one in the Mid-South
In 1991, the Mays & Schnapp Pain Clinic became the first pain clinic in North America and the only clinic in the Mid-South to be accredited in all areas of adult outpatient rehabiitation by the Commission for Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, or CARF. Learn more

Our Team
United in a common goal of helping patients find relief from pain, a team of professionals, including nurses, physical therapists, a psychologist and specialists, staffs the clinic.

Call us at: (901) 747-0040