When Alyse Anderson returned to her corner after the end of the second round this past weekend at Invicta FC 36, she sat down wincing in pain and began shouting “my feet, my feet” at her team.
In response, Anderson’s coach essentially told her to ignore it, perhaps believing that she had suffered an injury to her foot, but with five minutes remaining in the fight, he wasn’t going to allow that to stop her.
What her coach didn’t know is that Anderson was dealing with a flare up of Raynaud’s disease — a condition where the small arteries in the body overreact to cold or stress and begin constricting blood flow to the fingers and toes.