Swelling and pain in the foot joints may be caused by physiological reasons such as overwork, or pathologic reasons such as trauma, vascular lesions in the lower limbs, joint inflammation and infection.
1. Overwork: If you walk or stand for a long time, it can lead to obstruction of blood circulation in the lower limbs, as well as excessive fatigue of the ankle joints and accumulation of lactic acid locally, pain and swelling of the ankle joints can occur, which is a normal physiological phenomenon, and it can be relieved by elevating the limbs and resting fully.
2. Trauma: Trauma can cause damage to ligaments, joint capsule and bone in the ankle joint, which can cause pain, swelling and subcutaneous bruising in the ankle.
3. Lower extremity vascular disease: such as varicose veins, venous thrombosis and other diseases of the lower extremity, the venous return obstacle will make the blood stagnate in the ankle joints, which will cause pain, swelling and other symptoms of the foot joints.
4. Joint inflammation: such as ankle synovitis, gouty arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and other joint inflammation, in the attack of the disease due to the inflammation of the joints exudation, may appear ankle joint swelling and pain symptoms.
5. Infection: commonly caused by bacterial ankle infections such as dengue, lymphangitis, patients may appear foot joints red, swelling, heat, pain and other symptoms.
Swelling and pain in the joints of the feet may be caused by other reasons, if the symptoms can not be relieved in time after resting, it is recommended that the patient consult the hospital in time to clarify the cause of the disease and then carry out targeted treatment.