The 3rd Foot Cane foot is designed, Patented and proportioned to maintain balance, stability upright posture and the body's alignment like a foot. Letting you walk upright without leaning on a cane handle.

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Single tip, multi tip and quad canes don't maintain upright posture or engage the body's core muscles. The longer you use them the weaker your core muscles and the more bent forward you become.

The 3rd Foot Fabric Topped Crutches deliver a breakthrough in assistive mobility technology, providing ergonomic, anatomical, and
functional benefits that support user stability, comfort, and independence. By rethinking crutch and crutch foot design to align with the body’s natural movement, kinetic chain alignment and structure, these crutches allow users to move better, get stronger and walk longer.

Introduction

The 3rd Foot Fabric Topped Crutches represent a significant
advancement in mobility aids, offering a Patented design that prioritizes user comfort, kinetic chain alignment and stability. Unlike traditional crutches, the 3rd Foot Fabric topped Crutches are engineered to support the body without forcing the arms away from the sides or relying on the underarms and shoulder joints to bear the body's weight. This thoughtful approach addresses both anatomical and functional shortcomings of conventional crutches, leading to improved comfort and stability.

Ergonomic and Anatomical Advantages

Traditional crutches place considerable pressure on the underarms, shoulder joints, and the inner sides of the arms and the chest—areas not designed to support the body's weight. These regions are vital passageways for nerves, blood, and lymph vessels, and prolonged pressure can result in pain, educed mobility and potential injury. The 3rd Foot Fabric Topped Crutches eliminates many of the issues from traditional crutches by allowing the underarms and hands to rest naturally alongside the body, shifting the weight distribution toward the crutch feet, which are specifically proportioned, designed and Patented to mimic the movement, stability and balance of a human foot.

Patented Crutch Foot Design

A key feature of these crutches is their innovative 3rd Foot crutch and cane foot design. The 3rd Foot crutch foot is not a tip or rocker foot bearing no resemblance to the human foot like found on traditional crutches. The 3rd Foot Crutch foot design enables the crutch foot to move, pivot, maintain balance, upright posture and a heel to toe walking gait like a foot, ensuring stability and postural alignment from the back to the front of the crutch foot. As a result, the spine, legs, and skeletal muscles that stabilize the shoulder joints and girdle remain properly aligned, reducing pain and discomfort in the arms and underarms.

Improved Stability and Balance

Mechanical Advantage and Natural Movement

By keeping the arms next to the sides close to and under the shoulder girdle during movement, users gain a mechanical advantage over all other existing crutches and a shorter distance between the hip joint’s
axis and the body’s BOS. This positioning prevents the wrists, arms, top of the inside of the arms and shoulders from hyperextending forward, promoting a more natural and efficient movement pattern. The crutch design of the top of the crutch keeps the underarms next to the body, supporting the vertical orientation of the spine and the alignment of the scapula and shoulder girdle. The head and neck stay aligned over the body.

Functional Benefits of The 3rd Foot Fabric Topped
Crutch

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·The crutch foot is designed and Patented to move, pivot and maintain balance like a foot not a tip taking weight off the hip, knee, and ankle joints and distributing it onto the crutch feet enabling users to walk with their arms next to their sides and their head upright aligned and centered over their body supporting a natural walking gait when walking, backing up and turning.

The Physiological Impact of Crutch Use on Recovery

Understanding Tissue Healing, Bone Adaptation, Neuroplasticity, and the Role of Rehabilitation

Crutches are a vital tool in the rehabilitation of patients recovering from injury or surgery, especially when weight-bearing on a limb is restricted. While crutch use is essential for protection and mobility, it triggers a cascade of physiological changes in the body. These changes affect
soft tissues, bones, and the nervous system which can result in less-than-optimal outcomes.

Neuroplasticity and Motor
Relearning

Crutch-Induced Neural Changes

Using traditional crutches alters normal walking patterns, leading to changes in neural circuits that control movement. While this adaptation helps patients maintain mobility, it can also result in compensatory habits and secondary injury that persist even after recovery, potentially affecting gait, core strength, balance and the alignment of the spine.

The 3rd Foot Fabric Topped Crutch is designed and Patented to assist in all stages of recovery by helping to maintain the body’s postural alignment, balance, stability and a heel to toe walking gait when using 2 crutches. By combining physiological principles for optimal recovery, The 3rd Foot Fabric topped Crutch minimizes complications associated with traditional crutches, supports long-term function, and empowers patients throughout their recovery journey. Such design
features empower users to live more active and independent lives, addressing previously unmet needs in mobility solutions.

Conclusion

Traditional crutches profoundly affect the body alignment, influencing tissue healing, bone remodeling, and neurological adaptation and create
new, unnatural movement patterns. The 3rd Foot Fabric Topped Crutch
helps patients achieve safe, effective, and lasting outcomes by maintaining the body’s postural alignment with the head aligned and centered over the body, the inside of the arms and hands next to the side, a heel to toe walking gait Maintaining the body's kinetic chain alignment, upright posture and stability post-surgery or after an injury is crucial for a comprehensive recovery and for restoring more natural, efficient, and symmetrical movement.

1.US Crutch Utility Patent 11020308                                                                      
2.US Cane /Crutch Foot Utility Patent 10206467                                                                      
3.US Crutch Design Patent D1,007,137 S