https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/health/archery-injury-risk Changes to this claim in Matteo Campagna's evidence registry: its status, its year-by-year history, revisions of the page. en-gb https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/health/archery-injury-riskThe answer depends on how risk is measured, and it always has. The earliest study in the bibliography, from 1971, points the other way: in the thirty kyudo practitioners examined in depth there is overuse damage at the elbow and shoulder, and the authors also explain why the count stays low elsewhere, given that only a quarter of the sample had seen a doctor and those complaints do not interfere with daily life. In 2016 almost half of two hundred and thirty-nine Florida archers report at least one injury caused by shooting, and in 2017, among a hundred and fifty-six Indian competitors whose shoulders were examined, more than half are in pain on the day of the survey and more than four in five have had shoulder pain at some point. From 2018 the results on archers split: among sixty-two European competitors the injuries are mild and the acute ones almost always come from a piece of equipment breaking, yet more than half have had at least one overuse injury in their career, and the rate per hour of shooting that study calculates rests on a total of hours that does not square with the volumes reported. Among two hundred elite youth archers, half report training-related pain lasting more than three months. The two measures do not meet: severity is low, how often complaints appear is high. The figures that spread the idea of a safe sport, the 2021 ranking across sports and the 2023 emergency department data, do not measure risk: the first repeats the rate from the 2018 study, the second counts hospital visits rather than hours shot.claim:basso-rischio-infortuni:revision:2026-08-24:3Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/health/archery-injury-risk#storiaHere the first result in favour arrives: among sixty-two European competitors the injuries are mild and the acute ones almost always come from a piece of equipment breaking. The same study reports, though, that 59% have had at least one overuse injury in their career, and the rate per hour of shooting it calculates rests on a total of hours that does not square with the volumes reported. From now on the studies on archers point in opposite directions, because the three earlier samples said the opposite: the status moves to contested, and this is the first year in which the claim has anything in its favour.claim:basso-rischio-infortuni:history_entry:2026-07-31:2018Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/health/archery-injury-risk#storiaA third sample points the same way as the first two, and combines questions with a clinical examination of the shoulders: among a hundred and fifty-six Indian competitive archers more than half are in shoulder pain on the day of the survey, more than four in five have had it at some point, and for one in five of those in pain it persists between sessions and gets in the way of shooting. The authors write that the finding runs against the idea of a safe sport. It is the strongest of the three, but it is still a cross-sectional survey, with no other sport for comparison and no hours of practice: three studies against and none in favour show that complaints are common, not that the risk is high, and the status stays contradicted.claim:basso-rischio-infortuni:history_entry:2026-07-31:2017Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/health/archery-injury-risk#storiaThe first documented case of serious harm tied to the shooting position itself arrives: a twenty-eight-year-old elite archer whose shoulder vessels and nerves were compressed at full draw, who had surgery and was back in competition eight months later. It is a single case and measures no risk, so it moves nothing: the only study on archers that counts is still the 1971 one, which goes against the claim, and the status stays contradicted.claim:basso-rischio-infortuni:history_entry:2026-07-31:2013Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/health/archery-injury-riskclaim:basso-rischio-infortuni:new_claim:2026-05-16:contestatoSat, 16 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT