Greg Hickey - Club doctor
* Browny's tibia was smashed into bits and pieces as well as breaking his fibula and tissue and muscle damage. Newy's was a clean tibia break.
* Tibia pain last year - took a long time to heal as it was fragmented. Stress pain in tibia settled down and he played until doing a hammy.
* This year he developed stress fracture pain in his fibula.
* Believe this was all due to the anatomy of the injury. All the muscles and tissue were damaged and scar tissue built up.
* Nothing in the medical literature of a stress fracture in the fibula. So they had to study it from scratch.
* With time (2 years perhaps) his bones will remodel as they do and cope with the stress they'll be put under.
* Hard to say how long he'll get back to full match fitness. He's had two VFL games and trained well so perhaps 2-3 weeks. Confident he'll be back to his best towards the end of the year.
* Agreed other long-term injured players (say ACLs) can take up to 1-2 years to fully recover but Browny looked sharp in stages last year (ask Collingwood) so he's pretty confident he'll be back.
