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You’d need to change your cane and you might just develop a new gait based on the cane. Maybe learn to walk like a Fremen.

Put a little stone in your shoe every once in a while. It'll change your gait for you at the cost of discomfort whenever you walk.

This tactic is used in _Little Brother_ by Cory Doctorow.

I can no longer tell if this is serious advice.

CIA chief of disguise, at 4m35s:

Make a cane which changes in length every 3-5 minutes via a small internal piston.