I’ve read a few articles about it but it’s just not clicking for me.
I guess I’ve also just been watching too much House, and don’t understand why he would use it in the wrong hand either (there’s an episode about it so presumably it’s known in the series that it should be in the other hand).
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Somewhat unrelated to your question, but since you mentioned House as an example of incorrect cane usage, I’d like to clarify that House is actually using it on the correct side.
You usually use it on the opposite side when an injury affects your gait, to use it as a point of counterbalance, like another user already explained.
House has a muscular injury in his lower thigh, his gait is not affected by it. The only reason he has a cane is because he can’t put too much weight on the leg without being in extreme pain, so he puts the excess weight on his arm instead, through the cane.
That’s also why in season 2, when they temporarily cure his leg pain, he doesn’t need the cane.
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