The transverse arch essentially runs through the foot rather than along its length. I started wading through information on the structures of the foot and paid particular attention to the transverse arch. The internet definitely wanted to convince me that I had plantar fasciitis, but I knew that wasn’t right. I pulled out the two textbooks I kept from my teaching days and still couldn’t quite make sense of what I was seeing. I co-taught anatomy & kinesiology at our local community college for four years, but still couldn’t figure out what was going on with my feet. Transverse Arch Pain, Not Plantar FasciitisĪfter extensive Googling that consistently turned up results for plantar fasciitis even though plantar fasciitis didn’t make sense with my symptoms, my fear and discouragement grew. But as soon as I put on shoes– any shoes, regardless of model or style– the bilateral foot pain was so intense I couldn’t take a single step. I discovered that if I took off my shoes and socks and walked barefoot, I was pain-free. I only felt it during push-off in the gait cycle, but of course that’s a major component of walking and running. Perhaps scariest, the burning, tearing sensation was in both feet. I had no idea what was going on and had never felt such pain before. My feet felt like something was tearing off the bones in the space between my metatarsal heads and my toes. I couldn’t even get myself home and had to call for a ride. Those sore feet turned into agony and debilitation when I tried to to walk to the park near my house.
Despite feeling fine during the 6.25-mile run, and fine during a walk later in the day, I woke up the next day with sore feet. My stellar run in new shoes turned out to be not so stellar at all. I can’t stand cold and have to be careful because I have Reynaud’s, but the ice baths have helped bring down the inflammation in my feet.
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