Broken legs

[free at last]

Can anyone shed some info on past or present players who have sustained a similar break to our champ ,Micky Barlow.How long were they out for? What kind of impact did they have ,once they had returned? I can remember the likes of voss,Newman and brown.Cheers

 

[Farrand]

Michael Voss - broke his leg Round 11, 1998. Returned Round 2, 1999.

Chris Newman - broke his leg Round 13, 2006. Returned Round 1, 2007.

Nathan Brown - broke his leg Round 10, 2005. Returned Round 1, 2006. Was never the same player.

I believe Michael Voss' was the most similar to Barlow's. Voss cleanly broke both his fibula and tibia jumping into Shane Parker in an attempt to spoil.

Nathan Brown's was the worst because it was a spiral fracture which are notoriously difficult to heal. I think he was rushed back and that's the reason why he was never the same player.

Not sure about Newman's.

 

[peppy la pew]

Love your work Farrand..

 

[Farrand]

Spanking you.

 

[Tommo]

It would seem based on that, that the club is being really cautious about bring him back too early. That I think is a good sign, as the longer they give him the more long lasting his career will be.

Those guys missed 9 − 12 games, and Barlow has missed 18. Almost a whole season for micky.

 

[Kickett Punches Read]

matt maguire did a leg similar to nathan browns, and while he got back the next year, he continuously struggled with stress fractures and soft tissue injuries for the next three years after that. it was only last year that he got back to regular footy and that was only because brissy were so shizen

 

[PapaJ]

As you can see, there's no simple formula with these. Some (like Voss) go on to have effectively little adverse issues, while others (eg. Brown, Maguire) are impacted heavily for ages. The problem is the nature of the sport; they don't just have to come back to simply 'running well', but putting up with the ongoing stresses of high impact, high endurance, high speed, high skilled elite sporting environment week-in week-out.

Mick seems to be doing fairly well, but it's very early days really, we wont know the full story for a few years yet. We just need to keep being patient.

 

[Farrand]

It really does depend on the type of break suffered by the player, the physique of the player and generally how long it takes that particular individual to heal.

One of the most important things is that a player is never rushed back otherwise there is a greater possibility of a recurrence of the injury or random fractures and soft tissue injuries as mentioned by Kickett Punches Read.

Another few players who suffered leg breaks are for one our very own Roger Hayden, who broke his leg in round 21, 2004 and did not return to the side until round 2, 2006. Although he did play for South in the WAFL Grand Final.

Matt Maguire was particularly unfortunate with his injury. He injured his leg in Round 18, 2006 and returned in Round 1, 2007. The injury was similar to Voss and Barlow's in that it was a clean break. However, he developed Compartment Syndrone, which causes nerves and muscles to die from release of toxins. If you consider people who have had amputations after accidents it is usually due to compound breaks that have developed this. In all, Maguire had 8 operations. Worst of all he was rushed back for round 1 and didn't play again until round 14 due to the development of stress fractures that effectively kept him out in 2008.

Jack Ziebell fractured his tibia in round 14, 2010. It didn't require surgery but it kept him out for the rest of the year.

The key thing is rest and rejuvenation for a player and to essentially ease them back into things otherwise the likelihood of the same thing, or some complication, is increased significantly. So when the club says Barlow won't be back for 5 weeks, I'd take that as a minimum.

 

[PapaJ]

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The key thing is rest and rejuvenation for a player and to essentially ease them back into things otherwise the likelihood of the same thing, or some complication, is increased significantly. So when the club says Barlow won't be back for 5 weeks, I'd take that as a minimum.

As a complete non-medical expert, that all makes sense Farrand. On the bit above though I'm a bit more directly experienced. Having been involved in top level sport both from within and, these days, as an avid watcher, what you see time and time again are players brought back too early from all sorts of injuries. It's a bit better these days, but still happens.

The reason being is firstly the player is always desperate and thinks they're ready before they are. But, also, the coaching staff usually can't resist the temptation to bring good players back before their time when they are needed. Given our player stocks at the moment the temptation to "move things along" with Barlow just that little bit more than ideal must be there. We're seeing it a in a smaller way with Mz this weekend. I hope they resist, but it can happen.

I'd happily see us lose a couple more games than we should and Barlow rested for ALL the time that he needs.

 

[free at last]

^^^ cheers for that insight on players who have sustained similar breaks, to Barlow. I guess freo and us are a acutely aware of just how crucial ,Barlow is to our midfield setup, thus freo are taking a very smart, conservative rehab approach, so once Barlow is back the chances of setbacks are very low. Fingers crossed.

 

[scon]

Both Mick and the club will be looking to make it a forged steel event.I've been on the field twice when these double snaps have occurred and they are very nasty.One didn't get close to returning due to 'complications' and the other......
Mick will be treated as the high value bloke he is and doubtless will help modernise the way such injuries are treated.Nathan Brown's rehab was the equivalent of a butcher's elbow flogged as fillet,cos the Richmond shop was going broke.
Our mob are doing it better and the bloke himself will not be refused.

 

[Adolf Hipster]

How barlow should have reacted...

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[Franco]

^^ bahaha

 

[Nickos66]

What the ****?!? Hahah jeezus..

 

[Farrand]

The reason being is firstly the player is always desperate and thinks they're ready before they are. But, also, the coaching staff usually can't resist the temptation to bring good players back before their time when they are needed. Given our player stocks at the moment the temptation to "move things along" with Barlow just that little bit more than ideal must be there. We're seeing it a in a smaller way with Mz this weekend. I hope they resist, but it can happen.

I'd happily see us lose a couple more games than we should and Barlow rested for ALL the time that he needs.

Completely agree with you. The issue with premature injury return does tend to be two fold. The urgency of coaching and desperation of the player. It's unfortunate because the coaching staff should be the people putting the players mind at ease and promoting successful healing to ensure the player returns to previous form as it is entirely possible if done right.

Again I agree that I would much prefer to lose games now than to rush players back and find we are in exactly the same position later on in the season. I have to admit I am fairly cynical about Mzungu's inclusion especially when every article I read about it seems to cite desperation.