\n Injury Update\n <\/p>\n
\n Check out the latest injury news coming out of Melbourne\u2019s AFL pre-season\n <\/p>\n
MELBOURNE captain Max Gawn will enter rehab after fracturing his finger during training.<\/p>\n
The club\u2019s General Manager of AFL Football Performance Alan Richardson provided an update on the skipper on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cMax injured his finger on Monday and will be in a splint for the next three weeks,\u201d Richardson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019ll be able to continue running and will maintain his fitness, which means his ability to play in the upcoming AFL Origin match won\u2019t be affected.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tom Campbell has also been sidelined, injuring his neck during training. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTom was involved in an innocuous collision at training and has suffered a neck injury,\u201d Richardson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s torn a ligament and will remain in a neck brace for the next month. He\u2019ll see a neurosurgeon this week to determine the path forward for him.\u201d <\/p>\n
Bailey Laurie has suffered a fracture to his hand at training.<\/p>\n
\u201cBailey underwent surgery on his broken hand this week, and we\u2019re hopeful he won\u2019t miss too much football,\u201d Richardson said. <\/p>\n
\u201cHis return will be determined according to his hand functionality, but it\u2019s likely that he\u2019ll be back with the main group in the next couple weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jack Henderson is expected to return to main training at the end of February, with the Demon managing a stress fracture to his sacrum throughout pre-season.<\/p>\n
\u201cScans this week have shown that, unfortunately, Jack will remain in rehab for this next period of pre-season,\u201d Richardson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile it\u2019s a frustrating outcome for Jack, we know he\u2019ll attack this next stage with the same commendable professionalism as always.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jack Viney, who has been working through an Achilles injury, has returned to running with the hopes to join the main group shortly.<\/p>\n
\u201cJack\u2019s been managing that Achilles soreness and, pleasingly, has been making some really positive steps through that rehab,\u201d Richardson said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe expect him to return to full training in the next few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harry Sharp has suffered a hamstring injury but has started progressing through his rehab and is expected to return to full training in the next few weeks. <\/p>\n
In December, it was confirmed that Jake Bowey had sustained a long-term foot injury, with the Demon beginning to work through the early stages of rehab.<\/p>\n
Tom Matthews (meniscus), Brody Mihocek (toe), Shane McAdam (Achilles), and Andy Moniz-Wakefield (ACL) all continue to progress through their respective rehab programs, with all Demons eyeing off returns over the next two months in the lead up to Round 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Injury Update Check out the latest injury news coming out of Melbourne\u2019s AFL pre-season MELBOURNE captain Max Gawn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-412400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}