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Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger
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.
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Right - which is what made me wonder if he even dislocated it. Or at least a complete dislocation.
If you have a complete dislocation, you ain't just popping that ****er back in there. That's going to require, at a minimum, conscious sedation. Granted, you can get from beginning to end of that process in 30 minutes and shake off the cobwebs in another half hour. So maaaaaybe that's what happened?
But does Lambeau have an O.R. in the bowels? Because that's what you'd need for that sort of thing. That sure seems unlikely. And no matter how tough the guy is, surely they wouldn't try to reduce it without sedation because if he feels the pain and twists at the wrong moment, he could wreck the whole damn ankle. That would just be reckless as hell and to no benefit at all.
I just can't see them sending him back out on the sidelines or the media room on a dislocate ankle that hasn't been reduced. And I can't see them being able to reduce it on site. So if those two things are accurate, it can't have been a complete dislocation.
In which case we're talking about a high ankle sprain period of recovery; the syndesmosis flexed/torqued but wasn't compromised so he's just gonna be awfully gimpy for awhile while that ligament firms back up.
Just a few pieces involved here that I can't quite put together. There's something I'm missing in here somewhere.