Rising Richmond star defender, Dylan Grimes, received a positive prognosis on his injured left hamstring in his recent trip to Germany.

Grimes, accompanied by the Club’s strength and rehabilitation coach, Terry Condon, spent a week in Munich with world-renowned doctor Hans-Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfahrt.

 The 21-year-old was injected with actovegin, an extract of calf’s blood, in an attempt to stimulate muscle repair.

It was a similar treatment to that experienced by Geelong premiership player Max Rooke, and ex-Tiger midfielder Mark Coughlan.

“We were very lucky to get in with Hans on such short notice.  He’s a bit of celebrity over there . . . he’s massive,” Condon said on this week’s ‘Talking Tigers’ podcast.

 “Usain Bolt was there a week before us, Tyson Gay, a couple of weeks before that, a couple of NBA stars, and some Olympian female athletes from the States.

“The prognosis was very good and, for us, the important thing is we seem to have found the root cause of the problem and addressed that.

“So, certainly from here on in, we expect a good result.

“We’re pretty positive, definitely long-term, but given these new findings, we still have to sit down with our doctors and collate all this information.”

Condon said the actovegin, that was injected into Grimes, was claimed by Dr Hans-Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfahrt to activate the genes specific for healing.

“It’s all about fast-tracking that healing response in the body,” Condon said.

“He injects that into the area - the symptom -which is the hamstring, but also the cause, which is further up the spine.

“Dylan would have had close to 100 jabs over the course of the week, so he was pretty sick of them by the end.”