Walking is good for arthritis in the toes as walking helps keep your joints flexible and improves bone health and also reduces stiffness and pain by promoting circulation.
Taking daily walks and staying active can help keep blood circulating and keep your joints mobile and reduce pain and stiffness in your joints.
Walking is also good for your heart health and overall health and other forms of arthritis as well.
Arthritic toes look swollen, red and and often be warm.
Arthritic toes may also have visible bumps or lumps that form on the affected joints, like the big toe.
And arthritic toes may also have deformities like bunions, which is a bump at the base of the big toe, hammer toes, which is a bent hammer like shaped in the toe or even prominent midfoot bumps can also develop in arthritic toes as your body tries to compensate for loss of cartilage and joint instability.
The toes with arthritic toes may also appear larger as a result of new bone growth, with stiff and rigid joints which also have a limited range of motion.
Arthritis in the toes causes inflammation and leads to swollen, red and warm toes.
Your body may also form extra bone around the damaged joint to try and stabilize it and can result in bunions, which is a bony lump at the base of your big toe or even cause other callused bumps on your foot.
Common deformities that occur in arthritic toes are bunions and hammer toes.
Hammer toes are when the toe's joints bend and then contract, which make the toes resemble a hammer.
And bunions is where your big toe, leans toward your other toes, forming a bony bump at the base of your big toe.
And your toes with arthritic toes may also appear larger than they usually do, as a result of the growth of the new bone or swelling around the joint.