learned, which is that you really don’t appreciate how much you use your hands, especially both hands, while walking, until you can’t use them. when using a walker, you need to have both of your hands on the walker when in motion. that makes it very difficult to carry anything. it also makes it difficult to close a door behind you when you leave the house, and to do a multiple number of things we all do every day without thinking about them. when on a walker, you do have to think about them and how to do them. on the cane, you have one hand free, so it is 