Injury Update Tuesday, March 29, 2016
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| Tim Broomhead | Shoulder | Test | ||
| Nathan Brown | Hamstring | Test | ||
| Jamie Elliott | Back | Indefinite | ||
| Matt Scharenberg | Knee | Season | ||
| Steele Sidebottom | Suspended | Available round 4 | ||
| Josh Smith | Ankle | Test | ||
| Dane Swan | Broken leg/foot | 15-20 weeks | ||
| Travis Varcoe | Hamstring | 2-3 weeks | ||
| Marley Williams | Knee | Test | ||
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Collingwood superstar Dane Swan's season is probably over but the outlook is not as grim for his career, according to leading sports medico Dr Rohan White. Swan suffered significant foot and leg injuries on Saturday night against Sydney at the SCG when he landed awkwardly after a marking contest. The Brownlow medallist sustained a broken fibula, a broken foot and a ruptured Lisfranc ligament in the incident. But White said that with the correct surgery and rehabilitation, there was nothing stopping the 32-year-old from playing again next season. "He will take months to recuperate from this but the other thing with Swanny is the only way he gets fit is by running and for him to get football fit again it will be several weeks after the ligament actually starts weight-bearing and running and getting some work into his legs before his fitness will allow for him to play another game of football," White said. "First and foremost the surgery needs to take place to get all of the bones and the ligaments back together around his ankle joint and his mid-foot which is where the Lisfranc ligament is. Get that right, get it to heal, which will take three months plus, and then for him to get football fit would be weeks on top of that to get in the condition he requires to play footy. "If he's got the will to keep on playing there's no reason why he can't put in a big pre-season for 2017." Although Swan said earlier this month that he would be a "50-50" proposition to extend his career beyond this season, White said he would be surprised if the premiership star has played his last game. "I think despite his persona, deep down he's a very competitive beast. The other thing is, it's his dominant foot, some people put that as a bit of a negative, it's his kicking foot blah blah blah, but if it's treated correctly, rehabilitated well, there's usually no ongoing complications and he'll be right next year," he said. Coach Nathan Buckley said on Tuesday he thought Swan would already have "an idea" about his immediate future - but it was too early to publicly speculate. "He is still waiting for the swelling to come down. He is getting a bit of couch time and making sure he can get that down before they work out what they exactly need to do," Buckley said. "It's too early to speculate. I am sure he will have an idea on what his future is and an idea what he wants to do about it but I think even he needs to get more information before he can make that judgement." Swan was to have played a new role this season, where his time would have been spent more inside 50 than on the ball. "He was going to play in a different role. He was always going to play his time through the midfield and get forward a little bit more but we have a deep squad and we have the opportunity to replace that (Swan) with someone else who has the opportunity to stand up and play the role," Buckley said. White explained that the Lisfranc ligament injury was uncommon in sport and that the ligament itself was "very important" because it was critical to the integrity of the foot structure. "The Lisfranc ligament is the ligament between the base of the first and second toes, it's very important because it's responsible for the structure of the whole mid-foot and the forefoot," he said. "If it's not repaired it can lead to chronic pain, arthritis and dysfunction of the foot. "It usually reflects a high impact injury on the mid-foot with someone who has stomped on the foot or whether the foot was put into a position which put a lot of stress and strain on the ligament like Swanny's did on the weekend. "So often what happens is that ligament tears and it sometimes pulls off a bit of bone at the base of the long bone of the toes called the metatarsals and it's extremely important to repair, so once the diagnosis is made it's usually repaired with screws to bring the bones back together so the ligaments can heal and usually it's a three-month injury as a minimum to get over that - sometimes up to six months to get all the integrity back into the mid-foot. "The Lisfranc injury means a rupture of that ligament that can also fracture through the base of the first and second bones where the Lisfranc ligament attaches." The Lisfranc ligament is named after French surgeon Jacques Lisfranc de St Martin who treated soldiers in the Napoleonic wars who dropped cannon balls onto, and had cannon wheels roll over, their feet. Sidebottom Meanwhile, Collingwood has accepted the two match suspension handed to Steele Sidebottom from the Match Review Panel, according to Collingwood News. Sidebottom was reported by umpire Jordan Bannister during the third quarter of the Magpies' eventful 80-point loss to Sydney at the SCG on Saturday night. His high bump on Swans midfielder Dan Hannebery was classed as rough conduct which was careless, with medium contact to the head. Match Review Panel member and host of Collingwood Media's 'The Agenda' Michael Christian provided an insight into the incident on Monday. "If a player elects to bump, and bumps an opposition player in the head then there's obviously an issue," Christian told co-host Jay Clark. "Hannebery didn't go back on the ground, so that will all be taken into account." This is not the first time Sidebottom has come under the eye of the Match Review Panel. The midfielder has a total of three matches suspended in the last two years and was suspended for three matches for a similar bump on St Kilda's Maverick Weller in 2014. The result of his past history means Sidebottom could have risked a three-match ban if the club opted to challenge the suspension. Instead, he will remain on the sidelines for the Magpies' next two matches against Richmond and St Kilda. |
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