Robert M Spear DO

Robert M. Spear, DO, is a Pain Medicine physician with specialty training in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R). He is the founder of Coastal Virginia Spine & Pain Center and has provided pain-related care to patients in the Virginia Beach and Coastal Virginia region for more than three decades. Dr. Spear earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed a three-year residency in Family Practice/Internal Medicine at Norwalk Hospital/Yale University Medical Centre, followed by a three-year PM&R residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, where he served as chief resident. Dr. Spear is board certified in PM&R and brings extensive leadership experience to his clinical practice, including many years as a partner and president of a spine and sports physician group. In addition to patient care, he is active in education and professional outreach, lecturing nationally on headache and its treatment and presenting locally on spine conditions, spasticity, and myofascial pain management. His approach emphasizes comprehensive, function-focused pain care grounded in rehabilitation principles.