When injured on the right leg, you are supposed to hold your cane on the left side. How do you explain a so obious mistake in a medical TV show?
emucompboy
It's TV. No one told the actor to use the cane on the opposite side.
They wove the mistake into the show, by having House say that it hurt less when he used the walking stick on the wrong side.
Maria M.
It is not a mistake. Biomechanically a cane should be used in the opposite hand when the injury is at the hip joint. If the injury is at the knee or below, it is more efficient and more biomechanically sound to hold the cane on the same side as the problem. In House's case the injury is involving muscles that are primary movers--specifically extensors--of the knee (he seems to be able to move the hip at will). It can be assumed, therefore, that the cane is to compensate for his knee instability; thus he is actually using it properly on the side of the injured leg.
Tcjunior18
MARIA YOU NAILED IT PERFECTLY!!!!!!!
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