Variable weight and height adustable therapeutic cane

Abstract

The abstract of the disclosure of this new and improved variable weighted and adjustable therapeutic cane is to provide an improved method to allow elderly and/or disabled people to administer self-rehabilitation through the use of a variable weighted cane that will restore muscles strength with each and every step taken. The new and improved variable weighted and height adjustable therapeutic cane will also assist and elderly person to identify space due to the initial weight and color of the therapeutic cane. Standard canes that are presently available on the market which are commonly constructed from material such as aluminum, plastic or wood weight under a pound and therefore offer no restorative therapy to atrophied muscles. The new and improved variable weighted and height adjustable therapeutic cane will assist in rebuilding muscles with each step. The new and improved variable weight and height adjustable cane is height adjustable from thirty-four and one-half inches to thirty-seven and one-half inches to accommodate carious height sized people. The new and improved variable weight and height adjustable therapeutic cane weighs two and one-half pounds without the added weights and when the one pounds weights are added to the inside of the tubular steel leg, increasing the weight of the cane in one pound increments, up to two pounds, the therapeutic cane will weigh four and one-half pounds.

What is claimed as being new and novel art desire to have this invention protected under the Letter of Patent of the United States is as follows:  
     
         1 . A height adjustable and weight adjustable therapeutic cane that includes an elongated steel shaft means that comprises of a rubberized safety tip on the end of the steel shaft portion, 
 is height adjustable by use of a telescoping leg means, including an interior steel spring pin with button attachment that releases the button through one punched hole on the lower leg portion and also releases into the button into the upper leg portion punched hole to hold the upper and lower portion together and provides for height adjustment,    is weight adjustable from basic weight of the therapeutic cane of two and one-half pounds to four and one half pounds by adding one pound weights to the interior leg means,    is ergonomically shaped at the upper level to allow balance of the therapeutic cane when in use,    is provided with a closed cell foam hand grip on the upper end handle.    
     
     
         2 : is a two sectioned retrofitted steel tubular shaft connected in the mid-section.  
     
     
         3 : is height adjustable by means of a telescoping leg means, with an interiorally placed steel spring pin with attached buttons that protrude through the upper leg means and the lower leg means through punch holes at prescribed placements on one-inch increments on the upper end of the lower tubular steel leg means and also at the lower end of the upper tubular steel leg means.  
     
     
         4 : provides for weight adjustment on the initial two and one-half pound weight allowance of the therapeutic cane by adding one or two one pound weights to the interior tubular steel of the lower leg means, one pound at a time to allow the weight of the therapeutic cane to increase from two and one-half pounds to a final suggested weight of four and one-half pounds.  
     
     
         5 : the therapeutic cane is ergonomically shaped on the lower portion of the upper tubular steel shaft,  
     
     
         6 : the therapeutic cane has a closed cell foam fitted hand grip that is placed at the upper level end of the tubular steel shaft.