Editorial & medical review standards
Medical information carries consequences. Everything published here is authored or clinically reviewed by the physician who performs the procedures — dated, sourced, and corrected when it needs correcting.
In one paragraph
All clinical content on this site is written or reviewed by Paul D. Tortland, DO, a board-certified sports medicine physician and the first physician in the world certified in regenerative medicine. Pages carry a visible review date, cite published literature where claims depend on it, state plainly where evidence is weak, and never guarantee an outcome.
Author & reviewer
One physician, named on every page
Review cadence
Annually, or when evidence changes
Outsourced content
None
Outcome guarantees
Never made
Standards
There is no content team. The physician who performs these procedures writes about them, and his name sits on the page along with the date he last read it.
Process
Five steps, in this order, for every clinical page on the site.
01
A page exists because patients ask the question in the exam room. The heading is written as the question, and the first paragraph answers it plainly before any explanation begins.
02
The draft is written by Dr. Tortland from clinical experience and the current literature — not by a marketing writer, an agency, or a language model producing copy unsupervised.
03
Each claim is matched to a source: a peer-reviewed study, a society guideline, or explicitly labelled clinical experience. Claims that cannot be supported are cut, not softened.
04
Where evidence is thin, mixed, or absent, the page says so in the same voice as everything else. Where a treatment is unlikely to help, the page says that too.
05
The page publishes with a visible review date and enters the annual review cycle. Any material correction resets that date.
Claims
Questions
Every clinical page and article is written or clinically reviewed by Paul D. Tortland, DO, FAOASM — board certified in Sports Medicine, Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine and Family Practice, Registered in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, and the first physician in the world certified in regenerative medicine by the American Academy and Board of Regenerative Medicine. No content is outsourced to medical writing vendors or published without his review.
Every clinical page carries a visible “last clinically reviewed” date. Pages are reviewed at least annually, and immediately when relevant evidence, technique or regulatory guidance changes.
Clinical claims are drawn from peer-reviewed literature and from nearly two decades of direct procedural experience. Key pages carry a references section. Where the published evidence is weak, conflicting or absent, the page states that rather than implying certainty.
No guarantees of outcome, no claims of cartilage regrowth, no “FDA-approved stem cell treatment” language, and no before-and-after imagery presented as a typical result. Same-day autologous procedures are performed under the practice of medicine, not as approved drug products.
Dr. Tortland teaches and lectures for medical education organizations and has held consulting or faculty roles in physician training. Any financial relationship relevant to a product or device discussed on a page is disclosed on that page.
No patient image, story or review appears without written authorization. Contact forms are not used to collect protected health information — intake is completed by telephone or through the secure patient portal.
Email or call the office with the page and the concern. Corrections to clinical content are made promptly, the page notes what changed where the change is material, and the review date is updated.
Corrections & disclosure
If something on this site is wrong, incomplete, or out of date, say so. Corrections to clinical content are made promptly and the review date is updated to reflect the change.
Ask directly. Clinical questions are answered by the physician, and corrections are made promptly.