Types of walk­ing sticks:

Ash­plant — an Irish walk­ing stick made from the ash tree

Devil’s walk­ing stick — Made from Her­cules plant.

Shoot­ing stick — It can fold out into a single-legged seat.

Sup­ple­jack — Made from a trop­i­cal Amer­i­can vine, also serves as a cane.

Penang lawyer — Made from Licuala. After the bark was removed with only a piece of glass, the stick was straight­ened by fire and pol­ished. The fic­tional Dr. Mor­timer owned one of these in The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Mak­ila (or makhila) — Basque walk­ing stick or Staff, usu­ally made from med­lar wood. It often fea­tures a gold or sil­ver foot and han­dle, which may con­ceal a steel blade. The Makila’s elab­o­rate engrav­ings are actu­ally carved into the liv­ing wood, then allowed to heal before harvesting.

Keb­bie — a rough Scot­tish walk­ing stick, sim­i­lar to an Irish Shil­le­lagh, with a hooked head.

Keb­bie — a rough Scot­tish walk­ing stick, sim­i­lar to an Irish Shil­le­lagh, with a hooked head.

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Whangee — Asian, made of bam­boo, also a rid­ing crop. Such a stick was owned by Char­lie Chap­lin’s char­ac­ter The Tramp.

Malacca — Malay stick made of rat­tan palms.

Pike Staff — Pointed at the end for slip­pery surfaces.

Waddy — Aus­tralian Abo­rig­i­nal walk­ing stick or war club, about one meter in length, some­times with a stone head affixed with string and beeswax.

Ziegen­hainer:— Knotty Ger­man stick, made from Euro­pean Cor­nel, also used as a melee weapon by a duelist’s sec­ond. The spi­ral groove caused by a par­a­sitic vine was often imi­tated by its maker if not present.

When used as a mobil­ity or sta­bil­ity aide, canes are gen­er­ally used in the hand oppo­site the injury or weak­ness. This may appear counter-intuitive, but this allows the cane to be used for sta­bil­ity in a way that lets the user shift much of their weight onto the cane and away from their weaker side as they walk. Per­sonal pref­er­ence, or a need to hold the cane in their dom­i­nant hand, means some cane users choose to hold the cane on their injured side.