Editorial Policy

Independence

Recommendations are never sold. No manufacturer, brand or retailer pays for placement, ranking, coverage or a score on this site, and none of them sees a page before it publishes.

We accept no free products, no review samples and no sponsored content. We take no gifts, travel or hospitality from anyone we cover.

We earn affiliate commission when a reader buys through a link. That is disclosed above the first affiliate link on every commercial page and set out in full on the affiliate disclosure page. Commission rates play no part in ranking decisions — the practical evidence being that several pages here recommend the cheapest product in the category, and one recommends a free stretch over every device we sell.

Claims we refuse to make

These are absolute and apply to every page, without exception.

• No claim of testing, ownership or hands-on use.We have not tested these products. We will never write “in our testing”, “we tried”, “after three weeks of use”, or “our favorite to hold”.
• No claim or implication of a credential.No “our experts”, no “medically reviewed”, no “PT-approved”, no “clinically proven”. Nobody here holds a clinical qualification.
• No fabricated reviews, testimonials, ratings or review counts. This site carries no testimonials at all, because we have no customers to have written them.
• No invented specification. Every figure links to the manufacturer document it came from. Where a maker does not publish a number, the page says so and names the page we checked, rather than filling the gap.
• No hand-typed price.Prices render only from live retailer data with the date they were checked. When that data is unavailable or stale, the page shows “Check price” rather than a number from anywhere else.
• No diagnosis and no treatment advice. Pages describe the problem a reader says they have; they never tell a reader what condition they have.
• No manufactured urgency.No countdowns, no “prices won’t last”, no fake scarcity.

Sourcing standards

• Product specificationscome from the manufacturer’s own product page, spec sheet or manual, and are linked.
• Contraindications and safety warningsare quoted verbatim and linked to the manufacturer’s own documentation. They are never paraphrased, because paraphrasing a safety warning is how a warning becomes wrong.
• Physiological claims cite peer-reviewed research, linked, with the primary source rather than an aggregator repeating it.
• Where evidence is weak,the page says so plainly. “The evidence here is thin and mostly small-sample” is more useful than borrowed certainty, and it appears on several pages here.
• Anything we cannot source does not ship.

Scores and structured data

Scores out of 10 are editorial judgments derived from published specifications, not measurements. They appear on the page as ordinary content and they never appear in structured data. This site emits no review or star-rating markup of any kind — marking an editorial score up as a product review rating would contradict our own copy about not testing anything, and it is a structured-data manual-action risk besides.

We also emit no medical-page schema, because that would assert a medical authorship we do not have.

Corrections

If we get something wrong, tell us. Email info@gripandgait.com or use the contact form, which has a “a number or fact on the site is wrong” option specifically for this.

Our process:

1. We check the claim against the source it was drawn from.
2. If it is wrong, the page is corrected and its update date changes.
3. Where the correction is substantive — a changed recommendation, a wrong specification, a safety point — a dated correction note goes on the page itself rather than being made silently.
4. Where we were right, we will tell you why and link the source.

Update cadence

• Prices:continuously, from the live data layer. Numbers older than 48 hours expire on their own and the page falls back to “Check price”.
• Roundups: quarterly, and immediately on a new model release, a discontinuation, or a manufacturer revising a published specification.
• Symptom pages: every six months, or when a new class of tool or new research is relevant.
• Comparisons: quarterly, or when either product is superseded.
• Trust pages: every six months, or immediately on any change to our method or how we make money.
• Contraindication quotations:every six months, against the manufacturer’s current documentation.

The Last updated date on a page reflects a real edit. It is not a build timestamp stamped on every deploy — a site where every page claims to have changed on every deploy has thrown away the only honest freshness signal it had.

Health-adjacent content

A good deal of what people search in this category is genuinely medical — sciatica, pinched nerves, neuropathy, arthritis, blood clots. We hold a firm line: this is a tool site, not a health site.

Every symptom page and how-to guide carries a contraindications block quoted from manufacturer documentation, a “when to see someone” block, and a link to the medical disclaimer. Where the honest answer is that a reader should see a clinician rather than buy something, the page says that — several of them say it above the product recommendations.

We also do not feature products whose marketing claims they cure a condition. An unsupported health claim is a reason for exclusion, not a selling point.

Authorship

Every page is written by Stephen V. and the byline is consistent sitewide. There is no editorial team and we will not imply one. More on the about page.