Editorial standards and corrections
How our guides are made, what we will and won't claim, and every correction we have published.
How the guides are made
Tendground is a small, independent publication. Our guides are researched and drafted with the help of AI tools, then checked against the sources they cite: every study link has to resolve to the paper it names (all 174 did when we last audited them), and since September 2026 every drug statement in a new medication guide is checked against the drug's official label before it goes live. The byline "Tendground Editorial" means the publication stands behind the piece; it does not stand for a named expert.
Nobody at Tendground is a doctor, therapist or licensed practitioner, and our guides are not reviewed by one. They are general information, not medical advice.
What we never claim
- That we visited, stayed at, tested or tried a place or a product. We research from what businesses, labels and studies publish.
- That a directory listing is a recommendation. Listings are compiled from public sources; see how we verify.
- That a practice treats, cures or prevents a condition.
- A price, a number or a study we have not read ourselves.
How we source health information
Our medication and condition guides cite primary sources in the text: FDA drug labels, NIH and PubMed records, the CDC, and professional societies. A named study gets its authors, journal and year and a link. Medication guides give no dosing and never tell anyone to change, stop or time a medication; that decision belongs to the prescriber.
Many of our older explainers do not cite sources yet. We are adding them, starting with the pages people read most, and we do not describe a page as evidence-based where it is not sourced.
What the dates mean
"Published" is the day a page first went live. "Updated" appears only after a substantial rewrite or a factual correction, never after a wording change or a new title.
Corrections
When we get something wrong, we fix the page and log it here. To report an error, use our contact page.
- : Removed an article written as a first-person account of five nights at a Texas Hill Country retreat, with prices and staff details. Nobody from Tendground stayed there. It was not true and should never have been published. Its address now redirects to our regional guide.
- : Removed sentences in several retreat guides that said or implied we had visited, stayed at or vetted the properties. We research programs from what they publish; we have not visited them.
- : Corrected the publish date on 107 articles. Some showed dates earlier than the day the page first went live, including dates before this site existed. Each now shows the day it was first published, and an Updated date appears only after a substantial rewrite, not after a wording change.
- : Medication and heat checklist: the stimulants row said they raise core temperature. Their labels warn about heart rate and blood pressure, and that is what the row now says.
- : Minoxidil guide: removed a dose range. Our medication guides give no dosing.
- : Blood thinners guide: St John's wort was grouped with supplements that raise bleeding risk. With warfarin and Xarelto it works the other way (it can weaken the drug), as their labels say. Corrected.
- : ADHD stimulants guide: a Vyvanse timing figure mixed a children's fasting value with an adult value after a meal. Corrected to the label's adult figures.
- : Directory and city guides: some cryotherapy businesses (a dry cold-air chamber) were listed as cold plunges (water immersion). They are now listed under cryotherapy only, unless the venue's own website shows a plunge. Houston no longer has enough verified cold plunges for its own page.
- : Withdrew the US Recovery Index. Our venue counts are capped per search, so a per-person ranking mostly reflected city size rather than anything about recovery culture.
- : Removed a closed business (The Cove, Denver) and a listing that was not a business at all, and stopped linking seven venue websites that no longer load.
- : ADHD stimulants guide: said stimulants blunt thirst, which their labels do not say. Removed. The medication hub said stimulants raise core temperature; corrected to what the labels and CDC say.
- : Red Mountain Resort in Ivins, Utah has closed. Two articles presented it as bookable; both were corrected.
- : Removed retreat listings from an article that described facilitators who do not exist and linked to retreats that did not exist.