Numbness and stiffness of the toes are mainly due to the following causes: 1. lumbar disc herniation, some patients with lumbar disc herniation, such as patients with lumbar 5-sacral 1 ganglion herniation, will compress the nerve to appear numbness of the toes, or restricted movement and stiffness, then you can do lumbar MRI and electromyography to clarify. 2. numbness and stiffness of the toes if they occur bilaterally. If there is also numbness and stiffness in the hands. If the numbness and stiffness of the toes are more obvious in the morning, it is necessary to do blood sedimentation and rheumatism-related tests to find out whether there is rheumatoid arthritis. 3, the numbness and stiffness of the toes, ask the patient whether the shoes are too tight, there are patients who wear shoes too tight to compress the nerves at the end of the toes, there will be numbness and stiffness of the toes. 4, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, is a group of sensory nerve and autonomic symptoms as the main clinical manifestations of peripheral neuropathy. The main clinical manifestations of peripheral neuropathy. The clinical manifestation can be numbness and stiffness in the distal extremities.