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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Picture standing normally with two legs. If you lifted one leg without repositioning the other you would fall to the side; both legs are providing horizontal stability as well as vertical support.
Now imagine one of your legs is weak and you are striding forward with it. The other good leg is behind you, but your weak leg isn’t quite strong enough to support you. Let’s say the leg and cane are going to share the load 50/50.
If you used the cane on the side which is bad then you have shifted your point of balance even more to that side. If you used the opposite arm from your bad leg the point of balance between them is centered on your body and to won’t tend to tip over.
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