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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Like I said - depends on the mechanics of the dislocation; what had to 'let go' in order for it to happen.
A severe sprain that doesn't compromise the syndesmosis ligament while creating fairly minor malleolar fractures would be similar to a really bad high ankle sprain. That's probably your best case scenario.
Anything more than that and you're counting months, not weeks.
It would just seem pretty unlikely to me that a professional athlete would have a complete dislocation without compromising the syndesmosis. I don't know how you wrench a foot out of the joint like that without really taxing that ligament, especially if the initial x-rays came back negative. In this case, a break would almost be a good thing because then the bone was the failure point, not a ligament. And the bone would heal faster/easier than the ligament would and with less long-term impact.
I'd have rather heard that the fibula broke, to be honest. That would've been a pretty natural 'release valve' that could've let that foot come out without damaging a ton of the surrounding ligaments. And as a non weight bearing bone, the recovery would be pretty easy.
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A reporter at the game said on twitter that he saw Cook on crutches after the game and he had no walking boot on. He was actually wearing his normal shoes apparently.