What causes claw toes?

What causes claw toes?

Most of the time an imbalance of foot muscles typically causes claw toes. Specifically, your toe muscles contract too far, tighten the tendons and bend the joints. Foot muscles become unbalanced due to the following factors:

• Genes.
• Ill-fitting shoes.
• Nerve damage caused by diabetes.
• Rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis.
• Nerve damage cause by alcoholism.
• Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease.
• Spinal cord tumors.
• Polio and cerebral palsy.
• Stroke. The stroke-side foot is affected.
• Trauma.