The use of anesthesia for injections is something that we do offer, however do to increasing cost concerns and the minimally invasive approach that we use, the overwhelming majority of patients who receive injections from us do not use anesthesia. We often hear patients talk about how a friend or relative “had to go to the operating room to get their shot” and think that it was something more invasive or different than what we do in office. The truth is that every injection that is offered in a hospital or operating room can easily be done right in our office in less than five minutes saving our patients hospital bills, anesthesia bills and hours of hospital check in time by doing so.