{"id":38046,"date":"2025-08-20T18:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T18:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doralhw.org\/?post_type=procedure&#038;p=38046"},"modified":"2025-11-17T14:08:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:08:32","slug":"shoulder-injections","status":"publish","type":"procedure","link":"https:\/\/doralhw.org\/procedure\/shoulder-injections\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoulder Injections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What are Shoulder Injections?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Shoulder injections involve delivering corticosteroids, anesthetics, or other agents directly into the shoulder joint or surrounding tissues to reduce pain and inflammation. They are often used to treat rotator cuff injuries, arthritis, bursitis, and frozen shoulder. In some cases, biologic therapies such as PRP may also be used to enhance healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This procedure helps to:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Relieve pain from arthritis or tendonitis.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reduce inflammation in bursitis or frozen shoulder.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Support rehabilitation after injury.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Improve shoulder range of motion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provide non-surgical treatment for chronic pain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What to expect after Shoulder Injections?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Patients may feel immediate relief due to the anesthetic, followed by longer-term benefits from steroids or other medications. Some temporary soreness at the injection site is common.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Quick improvement in pain and stiffness.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mild swelling or discomfort for 1\u20132 days.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Return to most activities within 24 hours.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Relief lasting weeks to months.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May be repeated if pain returns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38047,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"specialty":[1136],"class_list":["post-38046","procedure","type-procedure","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","specialty-pain-management"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doralhw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/procedure\/38046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doralhw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/procedure"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doralhw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/procedure"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doralhw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doralhw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"specialty","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doralhw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/specialty?post=38046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}