In some cases, a steroid (cortisone) injection can reduce back pain and nerve pain that travels into your buttocks and legs by reducing inflammation. Our spine specialists may prescribe a combination ...

Most people know the feeling of getting a shot and having your arm feel sore for several days afterward. Some might even expect it as a side effect. The soreness happens when medications are injected ...

An intramuscular injection delivers medication into a muscle. Doctors frequently use intramuscular injections to administer vaccines and certain other drugs. Injection sites include the upper arm, hip ...

To ensure proper absorption and prevent skin issues like lipohypertrophy, it’s important to rotate insulin injection sites regularly, keeping about an inch between each site. When injecting insulin, ...

A subcutaneous injection, or shot, enters the fatty tissues just beneath the skin. It is shallower than an injection into muscle tissue. Healthcare professionals often use subcutaneous injections for ...

Blog post by Tianyou Xu. Remember this scene from the 2006 film Casino Royale, when James Bond gets a GPS chip subdermally injected into his forearm so that M could track his whereabouts (Image 1)?