“Mason is scheduled for surgery within the next few hours, which is a good start. He will now begin his rehabilitation almost immediately.
“We’ll have a better notion of a return-to-play timeframe following his initial recuperation from surgery — we believe it’ll be around six weeks, but we’ll be able to provide a more specific timeline early next week.
In the first quarter of the game against Collingwood, Wood collided in mid-air with his teammate Zaine Cordy when both were going for the ball.
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The hit whirled Wood, who collapsed to the ground and was knocked unconscious.
The game was halted for several minutes when medical teams arrived at the MCG to tend to the 30-year-old.
He was carried off the ground on a stretcher and sent to the hospital for scans.
His team went on to defeat defending premiers Collingwood by 15 points, giving St Kilda its first win of the season.
On Friday, the club stated that Wood had been concussed and would have surgery on his injured collarbone within 24 hours.
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“Obviously, you’d prefer your players not to be injured at all, but given the angle and way Mason landed, we could’ve been dealing with something far more serious,” Saints general manager of football David Misson stated.
