Decorticate Posture

It is the characteristic posture of a patient with a lesion at or above the upper brainstem.

Decorticate posture. The arms are bent in toward the body and the wrists and fingers are bent and held on the chest. The intensity of the required stimulus the duration of the posture and the frequency of spontaneous episodes vary with the severity and location of cerebral injury. Posturing manifested by the obtunded patient pulling arms and hands medially toward the center core of the body in response to noxious stimuli.

Decorticate posture a rigid posture of flexed arms clenched fists and extended legs. Decorticate posturing is also called decorticate response decorticate rigidity flexor posturing or colloquially mummy baby. Decorticate posturing is described as abnormal flexion of the arms with the extension of the legs.

Patients with decorticate posturing present with the arms flexed or bent inward on the chest the hands are clenched into fists and the legs extended and feet turned inward. Specifically it involves slow flexion of the elbow wrist and fingers with a dduction and. Decorticate posture is an abnormal posturing in which a person is stiff with bent arms clenched fists and legs held out straight.

Decorticate posturing is a type of abnormal or pathologic posturing not to be mistaken with poor posture or slouching. Decorticate posturing is a type of abnormal or pathologic posturing not to. This type of posturing is a sign of severe.

Decorticate posture is stiff with legs held out straight fists clenched and arms bent to hold the hands on the chest. Decorticate posture usually results from stroke or head injury. It may be elicited by noxious stimuli or may occur spontaneously.

Decorticate posturing is also called decorticate response decorticate rigidity flexor posturing or colloquially mummy baby. Traumatic brain injury decorticate posture definition. The arms are bent in toward the body and the wrists and fingers are bent and held on the chest.