Stiff toes may be caused by inappropriate shoes, tendon cysts, rheumatoid arthritis and other factors. 1. Inappropriate shoes: If you often wear smaller shoes or narrower shoes, it will cause pressure on the toe area, affecting the local blood circulation and causing numbness and stiffness of the toes. 2. Tendon sheath cysts: tendon sheath cysts are soft tissue injury diseases, is a benign swelling, can occur in many parts of the body, if the cysts are too large to compress the local pain, distal numbness and joint movement disorders, there will be the phenomenon of toe stiffness. 3. Rheumatoid arthritis: rheumatoid arthritis and group a group B hemolytic streptococcus infection, will cause damage to the joints, especially in the cold and humid time, the symptoms will be more serious, mainly manifested as local redness, swelling, heat, pain and pressure pain, accompanied by the performance of morning stiffness. Toe hardening can go to the hospital, clear cause to give targeted treatment, usually choose loose and comfortable shoes.