*****The Bryan Cook Thread*****

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger

I read a dislocated ankle could take up to 4 to 6 weeks to recover. If that's what it is then that would be massive.

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.