When Is Foot Arch Pain NOT Plantar Fasciitis?

When Is Foot Arch Pain NOT Plantar Fasciitis?

If you've been suffering with foot pain that's been diagnosed as plantar fasciitis for more than a few months, and you've tried orthotics and stretches, it's time to start considering:

Maybe your foot arch pain is NOT plantar fasciitis!

There are many different things that can cause foot arch pain.

(0:00) In this video you'll learn:
(1:00) ✅ What else can cause foot arch pain besides plantar fasciitis?
(2:11) ✅ What can help plantar fasciitis and other foot pain besides orthotics and stretching?
(9:00) ✅ How you can discover the root cause of your foot pain so that you can get rid of it for good.

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[brokenrulerlabs]

Thanks for being a straight talker. Injured people appreciate the direct nature.

[kellyvalone]

I’ve had arch and underside pain along the border of my feet for 3 YEARS now. I’ve been to the podiatrist once and I was told it was plantar fasciitis. No heel pain or morning stiffness. Mine goes into remission and flares up as soon as I do weight bearing exercises or cardio. I’m 23 and it makes me absolutely miserable. Do you do online consultations?

[DerekJamesLynn]

You made a very good point, I did a really good massage of my calf muscle and can all ready feel relief thanks

[irenemccann]

Very informative and very interesting 👍

[camillemiellca]

Thanks for the very clear explanation!

[jakeheavlow]

Hi, thanks for the video. I am a triathlete & I have developed some arch pain in my left foot deep In the center of the arch as of about a week or 2 ago. It only
seems to bothers me when I run not cycling or swimming. I want to think it is not plantar fasciitis because it doesn’t seem any worse in the morning and my heel has never hurt. I have been stretching & icing but not having much success, would love your thoughts. Thanks!

[aimee-ucyx]

Thank you for your help, I have a flat foot, pain under my right foot by arch side, what is final point?

[JanPiekoszewski]

Where is the link to the video on how to stretch your calf correctly? I don't see it.

[steveswen]

I get a cramp like pain in the arches of both feet early on during tennis/walking/mowing lawn. The pain immediately subsides after exercise and get a warming like sensation. Diagnosed PTTD. 6-8 weeks of PT have not helped.

[anonymous-cxix]

I get pain in the middle section of the underside of both my feet when I walk too long. My right foot normally hurts more but both have pain. It almost always goes away an hour or so after lying or sitting. Does anyone know what this could be?

[alpinewonders]

Nodules developed recently in my hands. It was diagnosed as Dupuytren`s disease. Then my feet started hurting in the plantar fascia area. I hear that Ledderhose is often a cousin of Duypuytren`s, and I expect it is this. My feet have begun to burn hot in that area.
Have you had much dealing with Ledderhose? Thanks

[vaseemsultana]

Thanks for the video. I went to doctor for foot pain and he suggested some exercise..one was balancing arch muscle in the step and exercising it .After doing that I devloped pain in the arch and its not going after doing plantar fasciitis exercise but I feel lil relaxed..what should I be doing in this case

[arrepuess]

Hello Doc, that is a lot of good info. Have you ever heard of sudden shock like stabbing pains in the middle of the arch of the foot that last a couple seconds? It’s been happening a little too often lately,
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

[KBB-nfdr]

Where’s the link for the calf stretch ?
My foot arch is tight & needs to be released

[lilbang]

I have arch pain and pain around where you described tarsal pain. It is 24/7 every single day. I can’t walk without taking Advil anymore

[jonwhistance]

Hoping you can give me some direction. Very active in shape male. Love to hike. Only my left foot bothers me when I’m hiking (climbing up a mountain on uneven ground from Boulder to Boulder)
The pain is the big tendon from my big toe is so intense, almost like I got shocked or an extreme pitch. Then it real remain hot the rest of the day. It will get worse has I hike.

Walking does not bother me. It also does not bother me any other time or day. Therefore I forget about it until I get on the trail. Yesterday was a bad day. It doesn’t hurt in the heel. Thanks for any direction.

[Nic_Pumpkin]

sorry for talking about something irrelevant, but it’s something very important to me. I’ve suffered from foot pain since about a year ago. it was last May that I hurt my right foot while playing shuttlecocks by feet, basically using my feet to kick a shuttlecock and pass it to others and … that kind of game I self-invented and played with my friends. that was supposed to be a fun activity, and it had been for some days, but one day it got a bit intense( not in the way of body contact, just about footwork, but it’s kinda weird since I just did small steps and tiptoe - just the posture you can possibly imagine to use playing the game I mentioned) I don’t know why that day I hurt my foot (right foot), it was like a stabbing pain, like it was severely strained (I found it painful when I tried to stretch my foot and toes up towards my body sometime later /about a few weeks I remember/ when the pain alleviate a bit). I used not to have warm-up exercises before doing sports, I suppose that it can somehow relate to the injury. Onward from the day I hurt myself, I had found it hard to do daily things like walking or cycling without feeling pain. but at the time I had to prepare for tons of exams, thus the treatment was deferred many times until the point when I felt that it had almost subsided, which was about August last year, three months after the day. and I started to exercise as usual, (I’ve been a running person since a young age, but probably because of my ignorance of movements and methodologies of protecting myself from injuries, I seldom had protection or precautions, despite I was luckily devoid of foot injuries until this one that I’m talking about), but the pain upsurged soon after the first run (about 5km), and after that I had always feel it at time, it has never been disappear. like sometimes I feel it, it gets more intense when I use my foot, yet when I don’t use it for a period of time the feeling reduces - but it’s always there, I know it. yet for a long time I didn’t take it seriously, thought it would be like some kind of my childhood pain that went away magically after some days’ of sleep. so there was no treatment and no consultation with the professionals until October last year. the doctor first made me to do an NMR for my right foot, the injured foot, and it turned out the possibility of bone fracture was ruled out. the doctor then diagnosed me as plantar fasciitis, and recommended a list of things to do (reduce loads, stand and walk and use my feet less, foot bathing and ice, stretches and roll out a ball). I followed it, but it didn’t make any difference in the following two weeks. So I went back to the doctor, and he prescribed me with three times of shockwave therapy which were conducted by another doctor. i did it weekly and ceased any form of exercise. and I started to do exercises again, which led to the recurrence of pain just a few times later. once again, I went back to the doctor and he offered another six times of shockwave therapy. I thought it was done, as I don’t feel pain anymore, in spite of some strange feeling (stretch? I guess) on the pot I hurt myself on some random mornings. but I felt discomfort and pain after I returned to normal exercise again, even though I did things thoroughly carefully and gradually. it appears that additional pressure and long times of standing can bring a lot foot discomfort to me.

the shockwave therapy was expansive and my parents were getting a bit impatient, but for the sake of ending my own affliction, which is only endured by me, I began searching many things on the internet. watching videos, reading articles, etc. In order to not aggravate serious symptoms, I have controlled the volume, but I still do run for a time after that, with looming pain, but with a lot of warm-ups and stretches. then I realize that it’s wrong, and I stopped it, and only play some frisbee in the past two months. but the situation is stagnating, no signs of getting any better, it’s still there. hence I seeked for more information online, and also additional help. initially, I tried to do more recommended stretches and exercises that are designed to help build my calf and feet muscles. Also, and most importantly, I get to know about the thing called physical treatment, which I bath my feet in cold and hot water intermittently for half an hour a day. and I did it for ten days until a week ago I had a fever and had to stay in bed (I think it is the new variant of COVID). I just recovered now, unable to attend any exercise, and searching for resolutions for my foot pain. Some videos about footwear and wearing a barefoot shoes have provoked me in some way, but I’m totally unsure about it. another thing to mention is that I have been doing toe stretches and wearing a toe spacer I bought online with no prescription or suggestion in person for a month, but it seems to have nothing to do with my pain. BUT BUT Fortunately I found your video demonstrating different types of foot pain cause, which is a thing that I have been concerned about and thought of since the doctor told me that it was unusual to have foot pain on the upper part of the arch (the part beneath the big toe, but with some distance of course) for plantar fasciitis patients. I am bit hasty in the early stages of exploring the methods of trying to treat myself, especially because I have quitted many sports due to this pain, or illness I would rather call. In your explanation, I think I’ve found someone that can actually help me and pluck me from the non-ending chronic pain for me. I know that it may be harder to deal with as I miss the best time to take action, but I am still eager and ready to do anything to solve this. for further references of my symptoms, I do not have that typical pain in the morning, the ache is at the upper part of the arch of my right foot, and it feels like stabbing pain after intense exercise and feels like there’s a cramp when not exercised, for very few times I feel it fine and well. I have made many mistakes, as I sport less - such as sitting for so long that my waist got injured last June and recovered last August, which was quite a long time ago, and sprained my right ankle three times in a row because my right foot was not stable enough due to injury I think.

all in all, it has brought me so many unimaginable inconvenience and disappointment from people around me, I hope you may kindly respond me and give me some helpful suggestions. (and do you recommend me to do any of the things I’ve tried previously?)

sorry again, for being this messy, I literally typed out everything about the related things I’ve encountered in search of the solution to the pain. I’ve seen you being responsive to all the comments under each videos you posted. thank you so much for reading my comment and offer professional advice, I really cannot fully express my gratitude as a nineth grade student for your kind heart. (I can provide more information about my ailment later on if I can remember more of them, I can send pictures if you want me to)

[FCB]

Daughter is a cross country runner, recently started getting bottom of foot pain in the arch of left foot. What would you recommend to relieve the pain? Thanks.

[merita]

Hi - maybe you can give some advice. I took up going to the gym recently after a long pause, never had pain in my foot. But now, when I do lunges (back leg slightly elevated, w let’s say 6kg dumbell) I feel a pain in my arch that can be best described as close to cramping. I don’t have pain when I walk or any other work out position, nor does any other location at my foot hurt. Any advice what it could be and how I could prevent it?

[FlippedNormal]

I run about 40 miles a week and my arches are killing me. Going to try wrapping them up.