Rather than opting for a traditional knee reconstruction, Malceski knee was rebuilt using industrial-strength synthetic fibre using a groundbreaking procedure by French surgeon J.P. Laboureau.
"You could only do it with certain individuals and Nick has been switched on to the concept from day one," club doctor Nathan Gibbs said.
"If you don't believe in the treatment, and don't believe it will work then it isn't for you but that attitude is instinctive in him."
"He is fully fit, he has also got mental confidence," Swans physio Matt Cameron said.
"If he looked tentative, we might hold him back, but he doesn't at all."