US 11,963,922 B2
Walking assistance devices and rehabilitation systems
David Lippman, Newburgh, IN (US); and Phillip Behrens, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Filed by WALQER LLC, Newburgh, IN (US)
Filed on Oct. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/497,219.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/089,273, filed on Oct. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0110817 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. A61H 3/02 (2006.01)
CPC A61H 3/02 (2013.01) [A61H 2201/0153 (2013.01); A61H 2201/0157 (2013.01); A61H 2201/164 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of customizing a cane system comprising:
placing the cane system in a first assembly configuration having a first combination of rocker bottom foot profile, shaft length, shaft angle, and return spring force in a return spring coupled between a rocker bottom foot and a handled shaft;
adjusting the cane system from the first assembly configuration to a second assembly configuration having a second combination of rocker bottom foot profile, shaft length, shaft angle, and return spring force;
monitoring a knee adduction moment in a patient user ambulating with the use of the cane system in the first assembly configuration;
monitoring a knee adduction moment in the patient user ambulating with the use of the cane system in the second assembly configuration; and
customizing the cane system to the patient user based on the knee adduction moment of the patient user in each of the first assembly configuration and the second assembly configuration.