Where do archers hurt? Epidemiology of injuries during archery practice
2022
Alberola Zorrilla, Pilar | Castaño-Ortiz, Carlos | Sánchez Zuriaga, Daniel
Background: The risk of injury in archery is supposedly low. However, relations between pain, shooting phases and types of bow have not been studied. Purpose: Understanding the biomechanical mechanisms of archery-related injuries. Methods: Online survey for archers from all types of bow. Variables were analyzed using contingency tables and chi-squared tests. Results: 396 surveys were completed. 36.9% of the archers had practiced archery for more than 10 years, 23.3% between 5-10 years. Olympic recurve bow was the most commonly used (38.2%), followed by traditional (23.3%) and compound (22.0%). 57.3% of the archers suffered some kind of injury during archery practice. Drawing shoulder (28.2%) and neck/back injuries (19.9%) were the most prevalent, preventing 50.3% of those who suffered them from continuing archery practice. There was a moderate association between drawing arm injuries and symptomatology in the drawing phase, especially in the shoulder region (0.55), elbow (0.20) and hand (0.13), and to a lesser extent in the neck/back (0.28). Conclusion: Our results show that injury chronicity is frequent on archery. Correlations between types of bow, phases of the shoot and areas of pain could be a starting point for future studies on the repercussions of different types of injuries in archery practice. Link to the published version: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09593985.2022.2136507
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