I did the same injury but worse as an 18 year old both sides of my leg needed plating and pinning and i was in pot for over 6 months, luckily for me at the time I was with a good rugby union club and my rehab started after the first month.

Am i a doctor.....no I am a Sports Science graduate, ex conditioning coach with a specialism in rehab.

Owen stated last night he had been doing nothing unable to train and sat on his backside all day, it would appear that if this is the case the entire backroom staff is not doing their job.

If rumours are true he will be well to be out of the club if he wants to reach his potential.

Maybe you should offer your services/expertise to the doctors and medical team seeing as you have so much in-depth information about Owen's condition at the moment.

Would you have worked with someone in isolation of a full medical history.....I think not.....but you are spouting off on the basis of a short, and almost certainly, edited TV interview.

With regard to your 'worse' injury (an amazing diagnosis without the benefit of comparitive x-rays etc) I don't know if you suffered an infection but a guy in LGI with me did and he had been confined to a hospital bed for 5 weeks and warned off pretty much everything except rest when he went home.

In the absence of input from Mr Owen's surgeon I don't think there's anything more to be said on this subject, even by a graduate who 'was with a good rugby union club'

I still think you're missing jonh's point of clearly wanting to overinflate a negative story from which a small number of facts have been deduced, in order to take a swipe at the club. To back up your point though, I would suggest that no two cases of such injuries will be alike and in the event of an infection, even non-medical people know that the best way to fight it is through rest.

Why would i want to do that? I do not post on the Cas board often if ever and actually wish the club well.

As I said ignorance to this condition may be acceptable from the fans but not from the medical team. Super League players are top athletes and it is about time at some clubs they were treated like it, i do not think it is any coincidence that the clubs with the least professional and invested in backroom staff usually can be found towards the bottom of the table.

I've seen little evidence from your posts in this thread to suggest that you 'wish the club well'.

Let's recap shall we





That all seems pretty negative to me. Now why would the club wish to neglect such a huge prospect such as Richard Owen? Just because he hasn't been able to do much, doesn't mean it's down to the club. What club in their right minds would go against the advice of medical specialists in rehabilitating an injury as serious as he suffered?

As I said previously, no two cases of such injuries are ever likely to be the same and just because an alleged poorly edited snippet on Boots 'n' All suggests that his injury is being handled differently to yours was, doesn't mean that he's being neglected. You don't know the facts, none of us do, excepting that we don't expect to see him playing again until next season at the earliest.

Just answer this one simple question:- Do you have access to Richard Owen's medical records and recommended course of treatment? If 'yes' then well done, if 'no' then STFU.

Re: The bold bit, really? Are you now also privvy to the complete staff roster for each SL club or is it another pish poor attempt at trolling?

If you were not here to argue then why did you bother with your original post as you must have known that what you said is garbage ?

Thanks for the patronising response, 'not on here to row', with a series of inflammatory posts, what did you expect? ...and you didn't answer my one simple question.

Am I a doctor ..... no. Am I a t*t .........yes.

So after 72 games Richard Owen is still breaking into the 1st team!

I quite agree with jonh on this one. When I was 21, I broke both my arms and legs is a bizarre accident at Saville Park. I also suffered severe concussion, vomiting, diarrhoea, bruised elbows and the loss of all my teeth and hair. I almost died and had to be revived twice on the operating table. The staff at PGI wrapped my arms and legs in Band Aids and sticks from the bushes on the car park, and I was back playing prop for Cas the following day. If it wasn't for the well-informed, professional treatment I received that day, just like the stuff recommended by jonh, I'd never have scored that hat trick of tries in a bruising win away to St. Helens in that very comeback match. And, do you know, I've never suffered any ill effects, infections, or further complications of any kind.

Well said jonh

As has already been said, no two injuries are the same and we don't know that much about Richie's injury or exactly what he has been told to do. But it's clear he has been told to rest, after suffering a break, having an operation and a plate/pins put in, plus the infection which set him back even more.

Having suffered the same kind of break, operation, pins and even a smelly infection with it, i can't see anything wrong so far in his recovery. It's lots of rest, lots of boredom and lots of watching everyone else do what you can't do. Richie just has to deal with it and keep looking forward to getting back on the field and doing what he loves.