https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/health/young-archers-draw-weight-shoulder 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/young-archers-draw-weight-shoulderThere is a single documented case on this question, from 1999. An eleven-year-old boy who competed almost every summer Sunday with a 28 lb bow, shooting up to 144 arrows in a day, arrives at the emergency department with acute pain in his left shoulder, on his non-dominant side, after feeling a click while shooting in a tournament: the final diagnosis is an overuse injury of the growth plate at the base of the coracoid process, the projection of the shoulder blade where several shoulder and arm muscles attach. Ten months earlier he had had a similar, milder episode in the same circumstances, which settled after a few days of rest, and the first X-rays were read as normal: the diagnosis came only with a bone scan. After four months off he went back to shooting with a 24 lb bow, which the authors consider more suitable for his age, and at six months he was free of pain. It is one case, and the authors write that no overuse injury of the shoulder linked to archery had been described until then: it shows that this can happen, not how often or above what load.claim:libbraggio-giovani-spalla:revision:2026-07-18:2Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/health/young-archers-draw-weight-shoulderclaim:libbraggio-giovani-spalla:new_claim:2026-07-02:riportatoThu, 02 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT