QUADCANE WITH ADJUSTABLE STANCE

摘要

A specifically configured rehabilitating quadcane implement (10) providing a positive vertical incremental adjustment of staff height to suit a user, the staff (14) being readily rotatable 180 degrees, so as to facilitate both left and right hand usage and during the final stages of rehabilitation and recovery the cane-staff may be extracted from the quadlegged-base spider by provision of a special safety-lock turn-flap device (16''), enabling monocane use. Furthermore, each of the quadlegs (26) are independently adjustable as to ground-spread, thereby accommodating the different stability requirements of patients. Most of the adjustments are provided via a common spring-tensioned button-detent (27) indexing device, whereby detent-holes (30) are staged at regular intervals. The adjustable quadlegged-base (24) enables the user to align the leading edges of the two frontal-legs (26), so that the cane staff (13) rocks forward exactly in line with the direction of walking.