St Kilda’s Nathan Freeman will next week head to a clinic in Germany in an attempt to finally overcome his ongoing hamstring issues.

Freeman will be accompanied by the club’s physiotherapist Andrew Wallis and St Kilda will be hoping that the treatment by a world-renowned soft tissue expert produces success similar to that achieved by Geelong’s Max Rooke.

The Cat was treated in Germany in 2009 and by the end of that season he was part of the premiership team.

Freeman had two injury-riddled years at Collingswood before a surprise move to St Kilda late in 2015. He had not played a game in 2014, and in 2015 played just four games in the Collingwood VFL side before the hamstring issue wiped out the rest of the season.

In 2016 he twice appeared in for St Kilda’s VFL affiliate Sandringham early in the year but was again sidelined for much of the season. He returned to the field to have four senior VFL games and two in the Sandringham development team.

Now 21 years old, Freeman was originally drafted by Collingwood from Dingley and Sandringham under-18s with Pick No.10 in the 2013 National Draft.