https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/health/rotator-cuff-strengthening-prevention 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/rotator-cuff-strengthening-preventionNo study of archers has counted injuries after a strengthening programme, and it is the authors of the most recent systematic review who say so: across the 15 exercise studies in archers published between 2015 and 2025 there is no incidence, severity or time lost, and the preventive benefits are inferred from balance, strength and postural control. What does exist comes close but answers a different question. A randomised trial in 31 elite Korean archers reduced shoulder pain with eight weeks of lower trapezius strengthening (pain scale from 4.56 to 2.88 against 3.20 to 3.67 in controls, interaction p = 0.002): it is the soundest result we have, but it concerns the trapezius rather than the cuff, and it treats pain already present instead of preventing it. Six weeks of core work, in 30 amateur Iranian archers, raised internal rotator strength without measuring any complaint. Until somebody follows two groups of archers through a season and counts the episodes, this stays a reasonable and untested recommendation.claim:rinforzo-cuffia-prevenzione:revision:2026-09-28:2Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/health/rotator-cuff-strengthening-prevention#storiaIt is now the authors of a systematic review who say the gap is there: across the fifteen exercise studies in archers published between 2015 and 2025, injury incidence never appears, nor severity, nor time lost, and the preventive benefits remain inferred from balance, strength and postural control. They call for controlled trials with injury outcomes. The status stays not studied, and this time the literature says so itself.claim:rinforzo-cuffia-prevenzione:history_entry:2026-09-28:2026Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/health/rotator-cuff-strengthening-prevention#storiaThe first figure on how many archers actually do strength work comes from two hundred elite youngsters: 84.5 per cent say they train the upper body and nearly half report shoulder pain. The two figures sit in the same questionnaire but are never related to each other, so they say nothing about whether the strengthening protects, and the status does not move.claim:rinforzo-cuffia-prevenzione:history_entry:2026-09-28:2024Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/health/rotator-cuff-strengthening-prevention#storiaTwo interventions in the same year come close and miss the same target. Six weeks of trunk work in thirty amateur archers raise the strength of the shoulder's internal rotators, and twelve weeks on the lower trapezius in fourteen university archers raise strength and score. Neither trains the cuff, neither records pain or injury, and the second excluded anyone with shoulder impingement from the start: the status stays where it is.claim:rinforzo-cuffia-prevenzione:history_entry:2026-09-28:2022Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/health/rotator-cuff-strengthening-prevention#storiaThe first randomised trial in archers that touches the shoulder arrives: eight weeks of lower trapezius strengthening reduce pain in 31 elite athletes. The status does not change because the outcome measured is pain in those who already had it, the muscle trained is not the cuff and nobody counted injuries.claim:rinforzo-cuffia-prevenzione:history_entry:2026-09-09:2020Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/health/rotator-cuff-strengthening-preventionclaim:rinforzo-cuffia-prevenzione:new_claim:2026-08-22:non_studiatoSat, 22 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT