Flaking skin: Where a persons skin lifts loosely in flakes. See detailed information below for a list of 19 causes of Flaking skin, Symptom Checker, including diseases and drug side effect causes.
A herniated disk can produce symptoms anywhere along the course of that nerve, though the injury and irritation of the nerve are at the spine itself. For slipped disks in the neck: Neck symptoms and other associated symptoms include numbness, tingling, weakness, or pain in the shoulder, neck, arm, or hand. Symptoms of a herniated disk in the neck often increase or decrease with neck motion.
If the soft jelly-like center in the middle of the disc is pushed through the outer disc, a herniated disc occurs â sometimes called a disc protrusion, or âslipped discâ. Even though the term slipped disc is used to describe a herniated disc, the disc does not slip out of place. Sometimes this will cause a pinching or compressing of the spinal nerves (causing pain into the buttocks or legs called sciatica) or the spinal cord (one cause of thigh muscle weakness with walking).