Toe pain can happen for a few different reasons. It might be from temporary problems, like a broken toe or blisters, or due ...

Psoriatic arthritis happens when your immune system mistakenly attacks healthy cells in your body. (About 1.5 million 2 people in America have psoriatic arthritis.) If you are trying to determine ...

Foot pain is often dismissed as a minor inconvenience, blamed on tight shoes or long days standing. Yet, in 2025, with 1 in 3 adults reporting chronic pain, experts recognize that discomfort in the ...

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) can cause toe and foot pain. About 50-70% of people with PsA will have foot abnormalities, and 65% will experience swelling in their toes (dactylitis). Your foot contains 26 ...

Joint pain in your foot is often due to inflammation of the joints (arthritis). This can be from an underlying condition, injury, or infection in your foot or elsewhere. But noninflammatory conditions ...

For such a small body part, your big toe can cause enormous pain — and when it wakes you in the middle of the night, the sensation is impossible to ignore. As it turns out, this type of pain is ...

In March 2022, Richard Bernstein’s leg became swollen. For about five years, he had experienced right toe pain and wondered if it was related to that. At the same time, he noticed a bump in his ...

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a type of inflammatory arthritis that mainly affects your spine. But in about a third of cases, it also causes problems in other body parts, including your feet. AS can ...

No other creature on the planet has anything quite like the human foot. There are 26 bones in each one, plus muscles, ligaments, blood vessels, nerves... no wonder Leonardo was obsessed with them. Yet ...

It’s the wurst-case scenario. People are prone to toe injuries big and small in the summer because they’re playing outside more, wearing less-protective footwear, such as sandals and flip-flops, and ...