An editorial publication on sports health.
Movemend exists because most consumer-facing sports-health content is either fear-driven or marketing-driven. The research is better than what reaches the reader. We're trying to fix that.
Movemend is independent and reader-funded. We don't take advertising from supplement brands, recovery-tech vendors, or anyone whose product we might one day need to evaluate. The funding model is dull on purpose — paying readers, no growth-hacking, no sponsored content disguised as editorial.
Our readers are adult recreational athletes — runners, water-polo players, judoka, team-sport amateurs — who want to keep training across decades without losing seasons to preventable injury. They tend to be skeptical of fitness-influencer content and tired of being marketed to. They want to know what the evidence actually supports and what the trade-offs are.
Editorially, we apply the same standards regardless of how interesting the conclusion is. If the strongest evidence for a popular intervention is weak, we say so. If a boring intervention has strong evidence, we lean into the boring intervention. We are explicit about uncertainty and we try not to let narrative pull us beyond what the data actually shows.
Editorial team is independent and reader-funded; public contact channels go live with the wider launch. Until then, the work is what introduces us — every guide on this site links the studies it draws from.