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Pain in the toes
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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[What causes pain in the toes?
It's no secret that walking has a general beneficial effect on the human body, improving, for example, blood circulation, increasing the strength of joints and bones. But, in turn, excessive load on the legs can have adverse effects if there are a number of negative causes that can lead to pain in the toes.
If you, for example, have blood flow disturbed, excessive stress on the legs can cause pain in such a pathological process. Change of seasons, for example, summer-autumn, sharp change of weather, adverse weather conditions can become an impetus to occurrence of various uncomfortable sensations in the toes. In this case, the following symptoms can occur: swelling of the extremities, local hyperemia, swelling. Here, most likely, we are talking about the occurrence of arthritis, a frequent causative agent of pain in the fingers of both hands and feet. Arthritis of the toes can affect one to several joints. The variability of the causes of this disease is very wide. It can be both trauma, and infection, and even weakened immunity. Sharp and intense pain in the toes occurs mainly at night, while abating and calming down by the morning. Burning and sharp pain in the toes leads to a restriction of mobility and stiffness of movements. Anesthetics will help ease the condition, a strict diet is also recommended. With this diagnosis, massage procedures, warming up, therapeutic gymnastics are shown. Treatment must be appointed by an experienced specialist.
The next unfavorable factor causing pain in the toes is arthrosis. It should be noted that arthrosis is much less common than arthritis. Provoke arthrosis can wear tight shoes, prolonged hypothermia, excessive load, as well as various joint injuries. All this can cause a violation of blood circulation and, as a consequence, arthrosis. The causes that cause destruction and inflammation of the tissues in the joints have not yet been fully investigated. Arthrosis often accompanies minor swelling, redness, fever. An effective method of diagnosis in this case is X-ray. In the treatment, various physiotherapeutic procedures are prescribed, as well as anti-inflammatory drugs.
Pain in the toes can be caused by fasciitis, or, more simply, pain in the heels. Heel pain occurs as a result of pressure on the nerve endings.
In diabetes mellitus, pain in the toes can occur as a result of circulatory disorders, including loss of sensitivity.
Diseases of the arteries of the feet - another factor associated with this type of pain. Tissues should be fully saturated with oxygen - if this does not happen, there can be various complications. To negative consequences in this case can lead, for example, arteriosclerosis of blood vessels. Factors such as smoking, high cholesterol, harmful production work can provoke the appearance of an artery of the feet.
To cause the pain in the toes can also deviate the thumb in the side as a result of the curvature of the joint. The impetus to the appearance of this kind of deformation may be flatfoot, as well as insufficient strength of the ligament apparatus. To remove the pain syndrome in this case, use creams and ointments, which are based on herbal components that have the ability to relieve inflammation and to alleviate pain. Complications in this case can be arthrosis, which subsequently affects the joints.
It should also be remembered about the consequences of bruises and injuries, which can cause pain in the toes.
Such a nuisance as an ingrown nail, even with minor discomfort, may cause pain in the fingers in the future. Comfortable shoes and moderate nail cutting can help prevent such a defect.
Pain in the toes can also be associated with outgrowths of dead cells on the surface of the skin - feet, heels, thumb. This may lead to quite strong pain. An experienced surgeon or neurologist, after a thorough diagnosis, will be able to choose the correct method of treatment, with which the pain in the toes will be successfully eliminated.