Foot stabbing pain and the feeling of being stabbed by needles are generally caused by the following diseases: 1. foot trauma, foot soft tissue injury, subcutaneous capillary rupture, bleeding, bruising, stimulation of the peripheral dermal nerve, will produce the feeling of foot stabbing pain. 2. nerve injury, including peripheral nerve injury and spinal nerve root compression generated by radioactive pain. Peripheral nerve injury mainly includes damage to the common peroneal nerve, injury to the cutaneous nerve of the foot, etc. Spinal nerve compression is mainly caused by the lumbar spine disease, the nerve root of the innervated foot is compressed, resulting in pins and needles pain in the foot. 3, foot soft tissue infection or foot arthritis, such as gouty arthritis, manifested as redness and swelling of the first metatarsal head of the foot, pins and needles pain.