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in senegal;patients are seen an average of 16 monts after their injury in a specialized hand and upper limb surgery department. Because of that lenghty delay,these patients have severe functional sequelae,such as wrist flexion contracture;avareging 45 degrees in our case series (range,35 to 90 degrees).After revewing the literature,we did not find any splint that was well suited to these patients.Inspiredby the general splinting rules set out by schulitz,MacConail and Brand,we constructed a volar/dorsal splint to reduce these contractures.We have been using this serial static splint for 2 years. We performed a prospective study of 17 wrists to evaluate its therapeutic bebefit,describe its use and outline its optimal application.