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.
1 For slipped disks in the lower back, back symptoms include. 2  Pain down the back of each leg from the buttocks to the knee or beyond (this is called sciatica, as it affects the sciatic nerve)  Numbness, tingling, weakness, or pain in the buttocks, back, legs, or feet or all of these as in sciatica.
Other phenomena that are closely related include disc protrusion, pinched nerves, sciatica, disc disease, disc degeneration, degenerative disc disease, and black disc. The popular term slipped disc is a misnomer, as the intervertebral discs are tightly sandwiched between two vertebrae to which they are attached, and cannot actually slip, or even get out of place.