Joint & Soft Tissue Injections

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Cortisone or hyaluronic acid injected directly into a painful joint to reduce inflammation, ease pain, and restore movement.

Overview:

Joint and soft tissue injections deliver medication directly into an arthritic or inflamed joint, tendon, or bursa to reduce inflammation and pain. Common options include corticosteroid (a cortisone shot) for rapid anti-inflammatory relief, hyaluronic acid (viscosupplementation) to improve joint lubrication, and in some cases platelet-rich plasma (PRP). These injections are often used as a conservative option before considering surgery for joints such as the knee, hip, or shoulder.

How It Works:

Using ultrasound or fluoroscopic guidance, a needle is carefully advanced into the joint space or the affected soft tissue, and the medication is injected to disperse throughout the area. Image guidance helps ensure the medication reaches the intended target. The procedure is typically brief, often taking only 5-10 minutes.

Conditions It Treats:

Joint Pain • Knee Osteoarthritis / Pain • Hip & Shoulder Bursitis • Tennis Elbow • Plantar Fasciitis

What to Expect:

Some soreness at the injection site is common for 24-48 hours, after which most patients resume normal activity. Pain relief often begins within a few days and continues to improve over 2-3 weeks; benefits typically last from a few weeks up to several months depending on the condition and injection type, and a short series of injections is sometimes recommended.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Republic Pain & Longevity is a patient-centered practice that combines interventional pain management with health optimization programs. We diagnose and treat the source of pain through advanced diagnostics and targeted, minimally invasive therapies, while also helping patients build long-term metabolic health, hormone balance, and vitality through personalized, ongoing care.

Traditional pain management focuses on diagnosing and treating a specific pain condition through procedures like nerve blocks, injections, and radiofrequency ablation. Health Optimization takes a broader, proactive approach — using interventional procedures, diagnostic labs, imaging, diet, exercise, coaching, and lifestyle strategies to decrease inflammation, improve energy, metabolic health, and resilience, whether or not you currently have a chronic pain condition.

We treat a wide range of conditions, including knee osteoarthritis, headaches and migraines, back and neck pain, joint pain, SI joint pain and sciatica, muscle spasms and myofascial pain, nerve entrapments, post-surgical pain, TMJ/jaw pain, long COVID and more. See our Conditions page for the full list and details on each.

No. Our treatments are minimally invasive, image-guided procedures — such as nerve blocks, radiofrequency ablation, and targeted joint or soft-tissue injections — designed to reduce pain and restore function without surgery.

The Peak Wellness Plan is our structured Health Optimization program built around advanced lab testing, a detailed clinical assessment, and a personalized care plan followed over nine months — targeting metabolic health, hormone balance, inflammation, weight, sleep, nutrition, and physical function, with ongoing follow-up to track progress. This integrated approach treats chronic pain as a whole-body issue, not just a symptom to numb – combining precise medical intervention with the lifestyle foundations that support lasting relief.

Vibility is our guided lifestyle curriculum — a structured, self-paced resource that supports patients through nutrition, movement, recovery, and everyday habit changes alongside their clinical care. Real-time reporting on weight, sleep, energy, digestion, focus, and mood keeps you accountable.

Yes. Peptide therapy and IV hydration are available individually or as part of our health optimization offerings, and can be incorporated into your personalized care plan where appropriate.

For patients who prefer to pay out of pocket or whose plan doesn’t cover a given service, we offer financing through Cherry Financial.

 

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Your first visit is a consultation with our team to review your history, any prior imaging or labs, and your goals — whether that’s pain relief, health optimization, or both. From there, we build a personalized plan, which may include additional diagnostics, a procedure, or enrollment in a health optimization program.

Contact our office at 979-703-1426 to schedule a consultation.