PIMP Your Stride: Preferred Running Form to Guide Individualized Injury Rehabilitation.
Cyrille Gindre, Bastiaan Breine, Aurélien Patoz, Kim Hébert-Losier, Adrien Thouvenot, Laurent Mourot, Thibault Lussiana
PMID 36188949WHAT IT FOUND
This article proposes a theoretical framework for running injury rehabilitation but reports no patients or outcomes.
It offers no evidence that the suggested approach works, so there is nothing here to change your clinical practice.
What this paper is
This is an opinion piece proposing a clinical framework called the PIMP approach for running injury rehabilitation. It describes a method for assessing running form and prescribing exercises based on biomechanical theory and author experience, but it reports no patient data, no outcomes, and no trials. There is no evidence here to change your practice.
Declared interests
The work was supported by the Volodalen Company, which sells the method described. Several authors are employed by or have been employed by Volodalen, and one author is the originator of the method.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat the PIMP framework as evidence-based practice. The authors explicitly state that scientific validation of the approach's effectiveness is still needed and that it is currently based on clinical experience and biomechanical theory rather than trial data.