The local injection debate for injury-targeted peptides is genuinely unresolved in the evidence - BPC-157 and TB-500 are systemically acting compounds rather than purely local ones, which suggests the injection site may matter less than generally assumed. The case for proximal injection is that local tissue concentration may be higher in the target area, but the compound reaches the target site systemically regardless. Running a proximal-then-systemic comparison in sequence would answer the question for your specific response better than either theory