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The Aligned as Designed Cane
Improve Posture, Balance and Stability.
The Aligned as Designed Cane is the first cane to focus on postural stability and improved body alignment to give you better posture, balance and stability with every step.
The Aligned as Designed® Cane™
The First Cane Developed to Improve Posture, Balance and Stability
The Aligned as Designed Cane is the first cane to focus on postural stability and improved body alignment to give you better posture, balance and stability with every step.
With its unique and patented shaft angle, The Aligned as Designed Cane allows for a more upright stance and forward-looking view. The SureGrip™ foot provides exceptional stability and a more balanced gait, while the soft, contoured grip provides support up through the shoulders to help keep your head up, improving your field of vision and your cognitive processing speed. The unique three-section shaft design allows a generous 17-inches of height adjustment. And at just over 20 ounces, it's easy to use and carry. Designed and engineered in the USA, this cane helps keep you Aligned as Designed.
- Patented shaft angle allows better posture
- SureGrip™ base and handle for better support
- Heel-to-toe dynamics for a more natural walking gait
- Unparalleled support for walking up and down stairs
- 17-inch height adjustment accommodates people from 3-foot, 6-inches to 6-foot, 6-inches tall
- Compacts quickly and easily to 21 inches
- LIMITED LIFETIME WARRANTY!
Designed to be Better
Patented shaft angle
Patented shaft angle
Patented shaft angle
Better Posture
The Aligned As Designed Cane's unique angled shaft design allows a more upright stance and forward-looking view.
SureGrip™ base
Patented shaft angle
Patented shaft angle
Improved Support
The bottom of the cane-foot has been carefully shaped to provide a wide contact area and lateral support. Feel more stable going up and down the stairs and maneuvering in tight spaces.
Heel-to-toe dynamics
Heel-to-toe dynamics
Heel-to-toe dynamics
A More Natural Walking Gait
As the cane is brought down in front of you, the resilient bead on the heel provides an initial "heel-strike" support. As you move forward, the large contact area rolls forward to a natural "toe-off" support position. The combination provides a mechanical advantage for better stability and a more balanced gait.
Soft, contoured grip
Heel-to-toe dynamics
Heel-to-toe dynamics
Relieved Wrist, Hand and Shoulder Pain
The soft, contoured grip on the patented shaft provides support up through the shoulders to help keep your head up, improving your field of vision and your cognitive processing speed. The cane helps you feel more stable and provides better posture, balance and stability.
Inventing a better cane
"I created the Aligned As Designed Cane after I became disabled and needed to use a cane when I was relearning how to walk. After using traditional canes, I realized that I would never regain physical ability from physical disability unless I could create a cane with a cane shaft that was angled at the same angle as the foot and leg during heel strike of the swing phase of the gait cycle.
"I designed the back of my cane foot to have a ridge like the ridge at the bottom of the calcaneus bone of the foot. Like the human foot I made the front of my cane foot longer than the back. I added a second ridge towards the front of the cane foot to mimic the length, ridges and placement of the phalanges and metatarsals of the foot. The design of my cane foot helps the midfoot and the toes of the user to maintain balance and stability while lifting their heel off the ground and swinging their leg forward.
"I placed the cane handle of my cane more posterior to the cane shaft and cane foot to help keep the weight of the body distributed between the cane foot and the user’s feet. In traditional canes with a straight shaft, the arm and hand must move sideways away from the body and the direction of movement to maintain balance and help carry the body’s weight. The Aligned As Designed Cane helps keep the arm, wrist and hand close to the body. The user’s shoulders stay aligned throughout the gait cycle. The user’s foot and the cane foot are able to strike the ground from heel to toe like in a normal gait. My ability to regain heel-strike to toe-off during the gait cycle allowed me to redevelop core strength, upright posture and walk normally again."
- Linda Smith Swerdlow, Inventor of the Aligned as Designed Cane
Stability is #1
Most canes offer a peg for support. Some offer four pegs. The Aligned As Designed Cane transcends all this with carefully crafted geometries found nowhere else.
The Aligned As Designed Cane is designed with a unique foot that focuses on the biomechanical motions of heel-strike and toe-off to help foot circulation and synovial fluids critical for proper mobility.
As you use the Aligned As Designed Cane, the motion created helps provide the first steps toward better postural alignment and improved locomotion.
A new angle for better posture
A unique and patented shaft angle helps locate your center of gravity over your feet for better postural alignment.
The Aligned As Designed Cane's unique angled shaft helps rotate the pelvic girdle upward, which allows for a more upright stance. Your center of gravity is now positioned over your feet while the forward angle of the shaft promotes a forward-looking gait. This helps keep your head up, your field of vision wider and your cognitive processing speed faster.
The top of the cane shaft is set farther back than the bottom. This is done to maintain the arms natural alignment with the shoulder girdle and to reduce the distance between the axis of the hip joint and the contralateral hand. This design helps feet strike the ground from heel to toe. When the feet strike the ground from heel to toe the body has greater balance, stability and core strength.
When the gait cycle has reciprocal movement, the shoulder, hip, knee and ankle joints work together to load the weight of the body over and on the foot within the body's natural base of support.
SureGrip™ Support
The contact area is contoured to provide linear support up through the shoulders.
The bottom of the foot has been carefully shaped to provide a wide contact area. This allows the shaft and thus the cane to provide lateral support up through the shoulders to help move the shoulders upright and maintain your center of gravity over your base of support. This especially helps with maneuvering in tight spaces.
Patented Length Ratios Provide a Comfortable Gait
Combining the angled shaft with carefully tuned lengths in front of and behind the shaft helps keep the body aligned
The line-of-support running from the ground contact point up through the body is constantly changing with the The Aligned As Designed Cane. As the cane is brought down in front of you, the resilient bead on the heel provides an initial support in heel-strike. As you move forward, the large contact area rolls forward to a natural toe-off support position. The combination provides for better stability and balance.
Lightweight Design
At just over 20 ounces, it's easy to use and carry
The foot of the Aligned As Designed Cane has been engineered as a hollow reinforced structure, which allows a generous landing area without the associated weight of traditional quad canes. A standard cane weighs about 15 ounces, while a typical quad cane can weigh 28 ounces or more. Coming in at a little over 20 ounces, the Aligned as Designed Cane is easy to hold, easy to use and easy to carry.
Full range of heights in one cane
Height adjustment at either the top or bottom ends allows easier adjustments, and can be made small enough to fit in the overhead compartment!
The Aligned As Designed Cane's patented three-piece shaft design allows a generous 17-inches of height adjustment. It's perfect for younger users while it can be compacted down to 21-inches to fit in backpacks. It's also small enough to fit within airline carry-on size and overhead bins so you can keep it with you on the plane. No longer will you need to leave your cane with the flight attendant!
The height can be adjusted at the top and at the bottom, making it easier to adjust the cane height when climbing or descending stairs, or getting up from a chair.
SureGrip™ Silence
A durable core with a resilient cover provides a silent yet confident grip.
The unique and patented SureGrip™ foot and handle are a two-part construction of a rigid core with a resilient over-molded rubber. The generous rubber sleeve is made of a soft yet durable synthetic rubber built to withstand the rigors of daily use. Treads defined in the bottom of the foot help push away fluids for a more secure grip on wet surfaces.
Limited Lifetime Warranty
We stand behind our products 100%!
Thank you for choosing Aligned as Designed! We strive to design and create products that are as durable as they are functional. Some normal wear-and-tear is to be expected; however, our quality-assurance process helps us to manufacture and improve our products by balancing performance, durability, and sustainability. That's why we offer a limited lifetime warranty on all our products!
If you have a question or comment about our products, or have a suggestion on how to make them better, we want to hear from you! Please use our on-line contact form for a quick and courteous response.
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We are excited to have been accepted to the CTIP Portfolio!
The West Coast Consortium for Technology & Innovation in Pediatrics (CTIP) is an FDA funded MedTech accelerator supporting pediatric device innovators from concept to commercialization.
Partnering with CTIP gives us the opportunity to improve the outcomes of children who require walking assistance. CTIP recognizes the unique health needs of children, and is committed to advancing new pediatric devices. The CTIP goal is to support innovators and encourage the development of safe, effective medical devices designed specifically for pediatric patients.