In 2008, the International Society for
Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO)
convened a consensus conference
in Oxford, England, called Recent
Developments in Healthcare for
Cerebral Palsy: Implications and Opportunities
for Orthotics. I participated in
the event by conducting a systematic literature
review on the orthotic management
of the hips, trunk, spine, and upper
limbs.1 Unfortunately, there was not much
research about wrist and hand splints to
review. There was a small series of early
case studies and anecdotal reports published
in the 1980s and early 1990s; however,
from 1994 to 2008, the time frame
that I had been assigned to examine, there
was only a single published study, and it
came out just months before the conference
was held.
