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.
Better Posture
The Aligned As Designed Cane's unique angled shaft design allows a more upright stance and forward-looking view.
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.
Maintain or Regain a Normal 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.
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.
The ability to coordinate balanced movement between the left and right side of the body is the way humans learn to crawl and walk. This type of movement maintains upright posture, core strength and physical stability.
Traditional canes prevent the left and right side of the body from moving together in a balanced coordinated way. Forcing the body to move in ways it was not designed to move results in a stiff stooped gait, and a loss of core strength and postural alignment.
Unlike traditional canes, the Aligned as Designed Cane can help regain physical ability from physical disability because it allows the body to move the way it was designed to move.
"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
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!
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