After sitting out the pre-season campaign, he is now set to return to training despite the bone still being broken.
The 30-year-old said: "We're going to try it for a couple of weeks in training. If all goes well, I'll just try and get back myself back training again.
"If I break down in training, and I'm starting to feel a lot of pain, maybe I'll possibly get it pinned. So, 'touch wood' it's something that's not going to happen.
"Once you start training again, you forget about things like that because you try and concentrate on the game."