Big toe pain may be due to trauma, rheumatoid arthritis, lumbar disc herniation, usually can not break the exercise, can be treated by drugs, surgery.
1. Trauma: If the patient’s big toe has been squeezed or collided, it can cause soft tissue contusion and fracture. Do not break the toe exercise, to ensure that the toe is in a static state, while oral amoxicillin, ibuprofen and other anti-inflammatory pain medication. If there is a fracture, the fracture needs to be reset through surgery.
2. Rheumatoid arthritis: Rheumatoid arthritis can also lead to the emergence of big toe pain, the patient should reduce the activities, can take oral leflunomide, methotrexate and other drugs for treatment.
3. Lumbar disc herniation: lumbar disc herniation will compress the lower limb nerves leading to big toe pain, patients should rest in bed as much as possible, you can take ibuprofen extended-release capsules, methylcobalamin and other drugs for treatment, if the lumbar disc herniation is serious, then you need to undergo surgery to remove the protruding lumbar disc.
Big toe pain can also be caused by tenosynovitis, osteophytes, osteoarthritis, etc. It is recommended that patients seek medical examination in time to avoid delays.