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Great to read this. They showed his xrays on the news and it fair dinkum looked like someone set off a hand grenade in his shin. Awful!!!
Brown making good progress
4:49:11 PM Tue 31 May, 2005
Jason Phelan
Sportal for afl.com.au
Tiger forward Nathan Brown is recovering well and should be released from hospital on Wednesday or Thursday according to club doctor Greg Hickey.
Brown underwent surgery on his badly broken leg on Saturday and Hickey was confident of a full recovery in the long term.
Twenty-seven year-old Brown will be on crutches for six weeks and should be able to start a light running program by September which will give him a reasonable chance of being fully fit for next year's season-opener.
"We're hopeful that he'd get out there and have a pretty full preseason," Hickey said from the Richmond boardroom on Tuesday.
"Obviously he's got a bit of work ahead of him and I would expect that his preseason's not going to be a normal, uninterrupted preseason but hopefully he can get some good work in prior to Christmas and then push on after Christmas and play at the start of the season."
Hickey also discounted comparisons between Brown's injury and the leg fracture that ended Jason Snell's career explaining that Brown had escaped without any damage to his ankle or knee.
Brown making good progress
4:49:11 PM Tue 31 May, 2005
Jason Phelan
Sportal for afl.com.au
Tiger forward Nathan Brown is recovering well and should be released from hospital on Wednesday or Thursday according to club doctor Greg Hickey.
Brown underwent surgery on his badly broken leg on Saturday and Hickey was confident of a full recovery in the long term.
Twenty-seven year-old Brown will be on crutches for six weeks and should be able to start a light running program by September which will give him a reasonable chance of being fully fit for next year's season-opener.
"We're hopeful that he'd get out there and have a pretty full preseason," Hickey said from the Richmond boardroom on Tuesday.
"Obviously he's got a bit of work ahead of him and I would expect that his preseason's not going to be a normal, uninterrupted preseason but hopefully he can get some good work in prior to Christmas and then push on after Christmas and play at the start of the season."
Hickey also discounted comparisons between Brown's injury and the leg fracture that ended Jason Snell's career explaining that Brown had escaped without any damage to his ankle or knee.
