Walking sticks are useful walking aids before walking aid innovations are introduced. Even now, walking sticks are still very much handy for disabled and elderly individuals.

Historically, hill men would never leave their houses without a stick to carry. Because of the rugged environment, the stick acted both as aid and companion. When sheep were already being herded, the stick became a necessary and ready tool for catching and controlling the animals. This was when the plain sticks came to be called as