Editorial Policy
How the articles on this site get written, reviewed, and kept honest.
How we write
Every article is grounded in the same clinical protocol the coaches use in the app, not general health writing. If a claim isn't supported by that protocol, we soften it to clinician-experience language or we cut it. We never invent a clinical fact to fill a gap in an article.
How we review
A new article is written as a draft and kept out of search until a named clinician, Woody Wu or Steven Tijerina, signs off on it. The byline on every published article names who wrote it and, when it applies, who reviewed it. You can read either clinician's credentials on their author page.
How we cite
Articles cite real, checkable sources: PubMed entries, professional body pages, or peer-reviewed reviews. Every citation url is verified to load and to say what we cite it for before publication. A fabricated citation would be the worst failure this site could produce, so we treat it that way.
How we update
Every article shows a published date and a last-reviewed date. When the clinical guidance changes, we update the article and its last-reviewed date in the same edit, so the visible date always reflects real review, not decoration.
What we will never write
We publish this list openly because it's exactly what an unreliable site would hide. None of the following ever appears as advice in a Helmden article. It may only be named to explain why we reject it.
- The classic squeeze or stop-squeeze technique.
- Hard pelvic-floor clenching to hold back.
- Aggressive edging, meaning riding right to the brink and clamping down. Gentle stop-at-any-point pacing is fine.
- Unsupervised, self-taught Kegels done to build a stronger clench.
- Over-stimulation advice: heavy, fast, or high-friction technique.
- Cure, guarantee, or permanent-fix claims.
- Medication names, sourcing, or dosing, and no claims about treating ED.
- Anything written as personalized medical advice instead of education.
When a red flag shows up, back pain with leg weakness and urinary symptoms, pelvic pain, sudden onset, or a long-standing organic injury, the article's job is to point you to a clinician, not to coach around it.
Education, not medical advice
Everything on this site is educational. It isn't a diagnosis and it doesn't replace an exam by your own doctor or physical therapist. See About for what Helmden is and isn't.