The Kruger van Wyk-captained Stags face the Canterbury Kings first up tomorrow from 7pm.
Having already been through the spin-dry cycle, Oram can relate to Milne's frustrations and his need for body management.
"I have empathy for him with all the injuries I've had and it's so hard.
"I don't think there's an answer to it [warding off injuries], to be honest, but with the correct form of training and how much training you can do," says Oram who is a bowling consultant for CD this summer in the white-ball formats.
He says Milne, who made his ODI debut in 2010 against Sri Lanka, is in the throes of finding a balance between making sure he has enough overs under his belt and having enough time for rest and recovery.
"All bowlers have limits to what they can do and they have to work hard but at the same time make sure they rest hard as well to give the body a chance to recover.
"His skills are there, he's got pace but even then he's not as quick as he can be.
"He's still finding match fitness and bowling rhythm but he's still got talent to use."
Oram is enjoying his non-playing role with CD "but I haven't really done, to be honest, a hell of a lot with the Stags so far".
"I really enjoy the environment and I like our challenges and the fact that we're always away. People can't imagine how we live out of a suitcase - my wife's one of them but It's a nice transference with the boys."
He's done some pre-season work with the squad members during winter at Napier camps and he can't wait to put it to test.
While attention to detail is vital in the four-day Plunket Shield campaign, Oram, 36, says the white-ball formats command a different mindset.
"The shorter the game the more specific you have to be, especially now when you know how strong players are with smaller boundaries and bigger bats.
"There's a fine line between succeeding and not succeeding," says the former Stags cricketer who plied his trade in the Bangladesh T20 comp last summer.
Oram stresses the need for the Stags to do their homework on each batsmen with the intensity of a nerd.
"One bad over can mean the difference between winning and losing. There's almost a need for bowling coaches and, you know, opposition scouting for the shorter format."
After CD's emphatic victory over the Otago Volts at McLean Park, Napier, this week Oram lauds CD coach Heinrich Malan's pre-season programme for providing a platform for immediate success this summer after a 2013-14 summer to forget on the South African's maiden stint at the helm.
"He's been so detailed throughout winter and not just when we've been outdoors in the sun, going back to June/July and that preparation has been the best I've seen since my time with the Stags," he says.
While taking confidence from the red-ball start, he points out other teams will have quality marquee players.
It's a "yes-and-no" response as to whether CD need hybrid imports to win the T20 competition this summer.
"If you think of some of the quality names around they bring a lot to your side.
"At the same time I like the fact that we have gone with a lot of trust in our younger and local players," he says, advocating the policy of no imports if it can be helped of new CD CEO Neil "Pods" Hood.
While it wasn't that pronounced last year, Oram feels the prowess of the young is coming to fruition.
"If the likes of Ben Smith, Will Young, Dougie Bracewell, Ben Wheeler and Adam Milne can go hard then with all that young talent it won't matter if we don't have overseas players."
Oram had answered an SOS from CD last summer in their T20 campaign but the Stags finished last in T20 and one-day Ford Trophy campaigns.
"I didn't match to the standards required and there's a couple of other senior guys who'll probably say the same."
Keeping a core of senior players and letting the young flourish around them is crucial.
"Kruger and those sorts of guys need to make sure they are putting consistent performances on the board and let the Youngs, Smiths and Wheelers do their thing around them," he says of Van Wyk, a former Black Cap wicketkeeper who has assumed the mantle of captaincy from England-bound Kieran Noema-Barnett.
AT A GLANCE
This weekend's Georgie Pie Super Smash draw (all at Seddon Park, Hamilton):
Today: Northern Districts v Wellington, 3.50pm; Auckland v Otago, 7.10pm
Tomorrow: ND v Otago, 3.50pm; Canterbury v Central Districts Stags, 7pm.
NZ A TOUR
New Zealand A squad to tour United Arab Emirates: Kyle Mills (c), Martin Guptill, Jesse Ryder, Anton Devcich, Dean Brownlie, Colin Munro, Colin de Grandhomme, Derek de Boorder, Nathan McCullum, Dan Vettori, Mitchell McClenaghan, Matt Henry, Adam Milne.
Schedule (all games in Dubai):
Nov 23: v UAE
Nov 26: v Afghanistan.
Nov 29: v Ireland.
Dec 1: v Ireland.
