External splints are usually uncomfortable, clumsy, time-consuming to make, and need constant readjustment and maintenance. The fitting of these cumbersome external splints is often very difficult or even impossible because of swelling, wounds, bruises, loss of sensibility, or hypersensitive skin. Another drawback is that these external splints with outriggers, straps, slings, springs, pulleys, and elastics, need someone trained, and with the necessary experience, to manufacture them. Patients often do not wear these splints because of pain and because they are awkward, unsightly, and tedious. These splints leave the hand exposed and vulnerable, which may further add to the reluctance of the patient to move it freely. Swanson believes that early splinting of the postoperative rheumatoid hand is imperative to assist and to promote the healing of corrected deformities. The idea of splinting is to establish anew, more functional arc of movement, rather than a greater arc of movement. Problems encountered with the splint suggested by Swanson are that the patients are often reluctant to wear it. This usually stems from postoperative pain, swelling, tenderness, irritation of healing wounds, thin fragile skin, and the relative heavy weight of the apparatus. The full benefit of these splints is thus not gained. All of these negative points led us to seek a simpler, more comfortable, more protective, more universally applicable splint, which could be worn at any stage during the treatment period, even directly after operation.