re: What is a high ankle sprain and what is recovery time?

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As I posted yesterday, "high ankle sprain" has become a colloquialized term basically meaning a "bad sprain". Technically though it involves injury to not just the ankle ligaments, but also syndesmotic ligaments connecting the two lower leg bones above the ankle. Hence "high ankle" sprain.

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Yes. ‘High’ ankle sprain refers to injuries to the tibiofibular ligaments connecting the two bones together at the ankle.

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High ankle" sprains normally result from an inward twist of the ankle or inversion injury.

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It’s actually the exact opposite. Eversion and more importantly external rotation

In football, it typically happens when a player’s foot gets caught as he’s going down and gets rotated out as somebody lands on it.

The key with these injuries is the ability to bear weight and go up on the toes. He seemed to be ambulating without too much difficulty last night. This typically means that while the ligament is sprained it is not unstable at the ankle joint.

Usually these are quicker recovery but with a typical injury he will still be somewhat limited against LSU in three weeks.