In January of 2013 a SUV crashed into the driver's side door of my car. Over the next two years I would undergo multiple surgeries and procedures followed by eight long post-op and recovery periods before relearning how to walk.

I was told by all my surgeons that I had unreasonable and unrealistic expectations regarding my long-term prognosis. What almost everyone including my physicians, surgeons and physical therapists didn't understand was that I didn't believe, nor did I expect my surgeries, procedures, and PT to return my broken, twisted, disabled body to the way it was before the accident. I expected my surgeries and procedures to give me the opportunity to use my understanding of anatomy and biomechanics along with my decades of martial arts training to develop a Rehab Plan to reach my unreasonable and unrealistic expectations

I am a Black Belt in the martial arts styles of Kung Fu, Wushu and Escrima. In martial arts there is always a Plan. That Plan is what allows you to start as a White Belt and after six to nine years and thousands of hours of classes learning how to break down and rebuild any movement that doesn't maintain your body's alignment you become a Black Belt.

When my surgeon finished my leg surgery he made sure that my left leg was straight, aligned and the same length as my right leg. For the next three and a half months I used Mobi Leg crutches. My left leg was bent, locked in a brace with my foot off the ground non weight bearing. The top of the Mobi Leg crutches with the saddle top forced the top of my arms away from my sides, my shoulders and the top of my spine upward and forward in front of the rest of my body. Because of the way the crutches and leg brace forced my shoulders, arms and leg to be aligned, moved and positioned to maintain balance the muscles between my hip and knee lengthened and the ones between my knee and foot shortened including my Achilles tendon. 

When I started relearning how to walk without crutches on April 1st, of 2015, my left leg was bent, twisted and an inch longer than my right. My Achilles’ tendon had shortened from being off the ground for three and a half months and because of that my left heel didn't touch the ground when I stood or walked. I had a different length step, stride, and gait on each side of my body. Every step I took was painful and awkward. My head along with the top of my spine were rotated forward. This was not a result of the car accident, but the result of the way the crutches and leg brace kept my healing body aligned, moved and positioned to maintain balance.

After my surgeries and procedures, I would complain to my physician husband that the crutches, leg brace, arm slings and other mobility devices were bankrupting the opportunity that my surgeons had given me by forcing my healing body to be continuously misaligned, moved and positioned in ways it was never designed for. I would tell my husband almost nightly that traditional crutch feet made a poor foot substitute because they weren't designed to maintain the body's alignment and upright posture like a foot. That the crutches were creating injury and secondary physical disability because of the way they forced the body to be aligned and moved with each step that I or anyone else took.

When I briefly used traditional canes and walking sticks after I started relearning how to walk, I would complain to my husband that no one had ever developed, maintained or regained their body's alignment, or an upright, stable heel to toe walking gait that engages and strengthens the body's core muscles by continuously forcing their body to be misaligned, moved and positioned in the ways that traditional canes, crutches, walking sticks and walkers force the body to be misaligned, moved and positioned. That if a walking cane stood straight by itself, but wouldn't let you stand up straight by yourself with your head upright and your arms next to your sides and your feet contacting the ground from heel to toe then your core muscles would become weaker and your spine and the rest of your body would become more misaligned and unstable with time.

 When I told my husband after I started relearning how to walk that my surgeon had told me that I would never walk upright or normally again.  He asked me what I had said to him? I told him that I said, I wasn't born walking, and I wasn't born a Black Belt. My husband said you know more about human biomechanics and how the body needs to be aligned, moved and positioned when walking to maintain upright posture and strong core muscles then I do and I'm a physician. Stop complaining about the crutches, canes, walkers and walking sticks and use your knowledge of anatomy and human biomechanics and your ability to build things to build a new kind of mobility devices. Ones that maintain the body's natural alignment, upright posture and stability. That can help you and other people regain, maintain or develop an upright, stable walking gait and strong core muscles.

Because I understood that Wolff's Law and Davis's Law were the two most important factors when it came to maintaining the body's alignment and strong core muscles. I designed, built and Patented the 3rd Foot Cane with a cane foot that moved, pivoted and maintained balance and upright posture from the back of the cane foot to the front of the cane foot like a foot. The 3rd Foot Cane along with the daily Rehab Plan that I created from my understanding of anatomy, biomechanics and my martial arts training allowed me to regain a heel to toe walking gait, strong core muscles and my body's alignment. Letting me reach my unreasonable and unrealistic expectations and walk upright and without a cane.

The West Coast Consortium For Technology And Innovation chose The 3rd Foot Cane as a 2020 Portfolio Member. 

In 2021 I was included in Think and Zoom Future of Disability — Global list of Disabled Innovators for the mobility devices that I invented and Patented.

The United States Patent Office and the Canadian and Chinese Patent Offices have granted a total of nine Patents for the mobility devices that I invented. This includes seven Utility Patents and two design Patents for the cane, crutch, cane foot, crutch foot, walker and wheelchair. All of the mobility devices that I invented and Patented are based on the principles of Woff's Law and Davis's Law.