Does a doctor review the medical content on this site?
Yes. Dr. Sean McMillan, DO, reviews the clinical content in his areas of focus, sports medicine, the shoulder, and the hip, for accuracy before it is published.
He trained specifically in these areas during a fellowship, additional focused training completed after residency, in arthroscopic sports medicine of the shoulder, hip, knee, and elbow at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester.
Where do the medical facts on this website come from?
From verified clinical records and named medical sources, never from estimates or guesses.
Procedures listed as performed by Dr. McMillan, such as arthroscopic surgery of the shoulder, hip, and knee, reverse total shoulder replacement, and hip arthroscopy, come directly from his verified clinical record. Any statistic that appears on this site names its source and the year it was published.
How often is this content reviewed and updated?
On a regular, recurring schedule, not only when a page is first written.
Clinical understanding changes over time, and a page describing a condition like hip arthritis, or a procedure like the Brostrum procedure for lateral ankle instability, is checked against current medical sources at each review.
Why does this site focus on sports medicine, the shoulder, and the hip?
Because that is where Dr. McMillan concentrates his training and his practice.
His fellowship training at the University of Massachusetts was specifically in arthroscopic sports medicine of the shoulder, hip, knee, and elbow, and his residency in orthopedic surgery was completed at the Peninsula Hospital Consortium, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health Systems in Long Island, NY. Conditions and procedures outside this focus are not covered on this site with the same depth.
Is the information on this site a substitute for a diagnosis from a doctor?
No. Nothing on this site diagnoses a condition or replaces an evaluation by a physician.
The content here is educational. It explains conditions such as hip arthritis, or lateral hip and snapping hip syndrome, in plain language so a patient can have a more informed conversation with their own doctor, including Dr. McMillan if they are referred to him in Burlington Township, NJ.