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Pain in the Thumb
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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[Osteoarthritis of the big toe
This disease is also called gout, but it is not. Gout and arthrosis are absolutely different diagnoses, which require different treatment. They share a similar symptom - pain in the big toe. According to statistics, gout is a rare enough disease, especially in comparison with arthrosis, which affects people's feet much more often.
Osteoarthritis of the big toe is mainly caused by women, men often have gout.
The perpetrators of aortrosis are the wrong wearing of shoes. Women will rather endure pain than choose unfashionable shoes. And then they suffer from this. Arthrosis develops due to the fact that the foot is uncomfortable because of a close toe. Fingers are very closely accustomed to each other, uncomfortable shoes presses on them, and this pressure is further intensified when walking. In this case, the blood flow is disturbed, the thumb is deformed, it is rubbed with uncomfortable shoes, and the finger begins to ache with time.
In addition to bone, walking in uncomfortable shoes also affects the joints, which eventually expand, thicken, finger movements, even the most simple, begin to cause pain not only when walking, but also in a calm state.
Effects of arthrosis
If a person does not change his mode of walking, does not buy comfortable leather shoes over his leg, the bone deforms so much that in this position it remains. The finger becomes curved, and if it is fixed for a long time in such a state, it is very difficult to fix its position.
In addition, when finger skin rubs against uncomfortable shoes, inflammation occurs in the periarthric bag. In this case, the joint is also inflamed. This is expressed by redness, swelling, and severe pain. That's where the pain comes from in the big toe and that's what its nature is.
The thumb on the leg is not alone, it is next to the other fingers, so it affects their shape too. Neighboring fingers also deform, change their shape and hurt. Then already medicines can not help or assist, intervention of the surgeon is required.
Therefore, it is better not to bring to this situation, and with pain in the big toe, change shoes, and take all measures to prevent the deformation of other fingers.
Neuroma Morton
This disease is also referred to as the fasciitis of the sole. With it, the whole sole soles, and also the toes, in particular, the thumb. Pain chooses a place mainly at the base of the finger. Pains arise from the fact that the nerve roots are squeezed tight shoes or uncomfortable position of the foot. The pain becomes even stronger when the nerve roots become thicker and more irritable due to their inflammation.
The fascia of the soles, or Morton's syndrome, can be distinguished by pain at the base of the fingers - the second one, or the third, or the fourth in a row. The pain is aggravated after the person has overstrained due to increased physical exertion, long walking, long standing on his legs. If one finger hurts, then the pain can be given to the next toes, as well as to the caviar area.
Women are at risk, especially after 35 years. They are subject to Morton's neuroma five times more than men.
Pain in the thumb and diabetes
Diabetes can also provoke pain in the big toe, oddly enough. These pains can occur during walking, after overloads, and are most troubled at night and in the mornings. Pain is caused by vascular disease and too much irritability of nerve endings.
Pain in the toes can also be supplemented with a burning sensation in the soles.
Where does the ingrown nail come from?
Factors that lead to the ingrowth of the nail on the big toe
- Very tight artificial footwear
- Injuries to the thumb
- Fractures and dislocations of the big toe
- Improper nail cutting (before meat, unevenly)
- Fungal and other infectious diseases
- Inflammatory processes in the joints of the toe
Symptoms of the nail growing into the thumb - its deformity, the redness of the upper phalanx of the finger, maybe even pus or fungus, as well as severe pain in the finger. The pain can be at first not very strong, and then amplified and even have a twitching character.
In this case, home methods of treatment can not help or only exacerbate the situation, you need to contact a trauma doctor, infectiologist or therapist.