A soft tissue injection is a noninvasive, nonsurgical pain relief treatment. These simple procedures can provide you with long-term relief from chronic pain conditions such as arthritis and tennis elbow. The procedure works by either removing excess fluid from the tissue, or by inserting anti-inflammatory medications into it. Unlike joint injections, soft tissue injections are administered in the spaces between a muscle and the bone.
When you arrive at Pain Specialists of America, our team will learn more about you, your problem, and how long it’s been bothering you. We will then determine if soft tissue injections will be a useful treatment for your condition.
After the procedure, you should try to keep the injection area immobilized for the next 12 to 18 hours. These procedures are very safe, and outside of some minor soreness, side effects of rare. There are sparse reports of certain patients experiencing hyperpigmentation, atrophy of subcutaneous fat, and infections after the injection, but the chances of this happening are very low.