Decorticate Posturing
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.
Decorticate posturing. Decorticate posturing is a type of abnormal or pathologic posturing not to be mistaken with poor posture or slouching. Decorticate posturing is an abnormal posturing and it is defined as semi flexion adduction and internal rotation at the shoulders and semi flexion or flexion at the elbows clenched fists and legs held out straight 1. Decorticate posture is stiff with legs held out straight fists clenched and arms bent to hold the hands on the chest.
The arms are bent in toward the body and the wrists and fingers are bent and held on the chest. Decorticate posturing is also called decorticate response decorticate rigidity flexor posturing or.