Trust & evidence
Editorial & evidence policy
The rules behind a large wellness resource: what earns a page, what a claim has to cite, what we refuse to say, and who has actually reviewed any of it.
Last substantively reviewed: August 7, 2026
People first, search second
Every page should help a real visitor compare, find, evaluate, or operate something. A URL that can be generated is not thereby a page worth publishing. Local pages have to clear a floor of real listings and of facts derived from those listings before they ask for a search result; below the floor they stay reachable and stop competing.
The floors, as the build enforces them
- City hub
- At least 2 distinct listed studios. Below that the hub stays public and is excluded from the index.
- City × modality page
- At least 3 distinct studios, 2 computed insights, and one data-shaped section from those listings. Below any floor, the page stays public and is excluded.
- Goal hub
- At least 3 approved supporting claims in the evidence graph, because the page's job is ranking several modalities against one goal.
- Studio profile
- At least one of: an authored description, a real photo, a Google rating. A profile with none of the three stays public and is excluded from the index.
Evidence language
We grade evidence rather than asserting it: strong, moderate, limited, anecdotal, and separately whether the research supports, complicates, refutes, or fails to resolve the question. Mechanism is not outcome, association is not causation, and a clinical indication is not permission to extend a claim to a wellness use. Claims that point the other way are published in the same place as the ones that agree with us.
What the graph approves today
544 approved claims
22 strong · 143 moderate · 297 limited · 82 anecdotal, across 46 modality guides. Of those, 33 refute the claim they are attached to and 69 are inconclusive.
Counted live from the evidence graph on each revalidation. Only rows a human has marked approved are included, and only claims bound to a published modality guide are counted, so this is what a reader can actually reach rather than the size of the database.
Health and safety boundaries
Praxium organizes goal-based performance and recovery sequencing. It is educational and operational, and it is not diagnosis, prescribing, or individualized medical advice. Contraindications and safety notes are prompts for professional review, not a substitute for one. Studio safety screening language is published only from rules a reviewer has activated, and it is described as what studios commonly ask, never as a complete list.
Words we don't use
These are not style preferences. A wellness directory has no standing to assert a medical outcome, so this vocabulary never appears as a claim about a modality on this site, and a build that introduces one fails the static gate before it ships.
- treat
- treats
- cure
- cures
- cured
- diagnose
- diagnoses
- diagnosing
- guarantee
- guarantees
- guaranteed
- clinically proven
Sources and freshness
Health claims cite peer-reviewed research, systematic reviews, or top-tier clinical references. Operator and equipment claims cite regulators, standards bodies, government statistics, or manufacturer documentation. The two lists are kept apart by the build: a physiology claim citing a small-business statistic, or a studio-economics claim citing a clinical trial, is a category error and gets rejected. Citations on evidence claims are graded by the standing of the venue instead, and the strongest source is shown first. Dates move when something was reviewed or corrected, never to look fresh.
Domains a citation may come from
Editorial claims about health (12 domains):
- pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- www.nccih.nih.gov
- my.clevelandclinic.org
- www.health.harvard.edu
- www.mayoclinic.org
- www.cochranelibrary.com
- www.cdc.gov
- www.nsf.org
- www.ul.com
- share.ansi.org
Operator, business and standards claims may additionally cite:
- www.sba.gov
- www.ftc.gov
- www.fda.gov
- www.bls.gov
- www.census.gov
Citations under an evidence claim are ranked by venue rather than held to a single list. Stronger tiers are shown first. A host that appears nowhere below cannot be cited at all.
Evidence syntheses, flagship journals, regulators
- obis.osha.gov
- ods.od.nih.gov
- www.ahajournals.org
- www.cdc.gov
- www.cochrane.org
- www.cochranelibrary.com
- www.epa.gov
- www.fda.gov
- www.nature.com
- www.nccih.nih.gov
- www.nejm.org
- www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org
Indexed peer-reviewed literature
- academic.oup.com
- bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com
- doi.org
- gs.amegroups.org
- journals.plos.org
- journals.sagepub.com
- karger.com
- pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- www.annfammed.org
- www.jstage.jst.go.jp
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- www.psychiatrist.com
- www.psychiatryinvestigation.org
- www.sciencedirect.com
- www.tandfonline.com
Professional societies and clinical institutions
- aasm.org
- cam-cancer.org
- health.clevelandclinic.org
- my.clevelandclinic.org
- researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz
- share.ansi.org
- site.thoracic.org
- uhms.org
- www.acsm.org
- www.cancer.org
- www.health.harvard.edu
- www.law.cornell.edu
- www.mayoclinic.org
- www.nsf.org
- www.radiologyinfo.org
- www.ul.com
Peer-reviewed, contested editorial reputation
- www.frontiersin.org
- www.hindawi.com
- www.mdpi.com
Named and excluded — these are in the map so the exclusion is deliberate and reviewable, not an oversight:
- news.allerganaesthetics.com
- www.bcbsri.com
Human review
Health-adjacent pages carry an organization byline. A named clinical reviewer is a stronger signal, and Praxium does not have one yet. Until a credentialed practitioner has agreed to be listed with checkable credentials, no page on this site prints a reviewer name, a review date attributed to a person, or a reviewer entity in its structured data.
Named reviewers today
0
No page on this site carries a named reviewer byline, because no reviewer has been recruited. That is a real gap, stated rather than papered over.
Reviewer program status →Directory verification
A Praxium verification badge means the business and its listing details were checked against public business data and, for claimed pages, confirmed with a representative. It is not a medical credential, a safety certification, or a guarantee of service quality. Listings show a verification date only when a person actually checked them, and most listings do not carry one.
What each check proves
The three checks are not equally strong, and the count of listings that have passed each one is published alongside it.
How verification works, with live counts →Commercial relationships
A studio or manufacturer may become a customer or partner. Payment does not buy a false claim, a fabricated review, or an undisclosed ranking advantage. Sponsored, affiliate, or co-marketing relationships must be labeled where they affect the page or the recommendation.
AI assistance
AI helps organize research, find missing fields, draft structure, and check consistency across a large corpus. It is not a source. A factual claim has to trace to source material a reader can open, and health language is reviewed by a person before publication. A page that could only be written by pattern-matching its neighbours is a page we should not publish at all.
Corrections
Material corrections update the underlying record and every page derived from it, not just the visible symptom. Businesses can claim or update their pages, and readers can flag an error through the relevant listing or partner form.
The log
One correction has been logged and published. Entries are appended, never edited or removed.
Read the corrections log →See something that needs correction?
Studio operators can use the claim flow; manufacturers can use the partner form. Include the affected URL and the primary source that supports the correction.