With a digital imaging, Dr. Georgiy Brusovanik, Spine Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, explains the different types of disc conditions: normal disc, degenerative disc, bulging disc, herniated disc, thinning disc and disc degeneration with osteophyte formation.
The doctor describes degenerative disc is part of a normal aging cascade where the outer wall of the disk thins and develops those fissures like a dry, cracked limb.