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I will say before I got a cane I didn’t really understand what it was for, the best mental model I had was crutches, like you use them as a substitute for a weak leg on that phase of the stride?
But no, it’s that by tapping them down with every stride you can absorb lateral instability with the forearm instead of letting it build up like a pendulum, standing still you can plant it and rotate the top around in like a foot radius to stabilize on each and every axis, you can hold it to the side and move your arm or rotate your wrist to twist it and shift the system’s center of mass like a tightrope walker’s pole
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