So I saw that San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex Smith is out of today's game with "a third-degree shoulder separation." Which got me to wondering about the varying levels of severity of a shoulder separation. It turns out there are six different types, from Type I to Type VI, in increasing levels of damage and resultant treatment.
In other words, as I was hoping, there are six degrees of shoulder separation.
In other words, as I was hoping, there are six degrees of shoulder separation.