Decerebrate Decorticate Posturing

This video introduces you to decerebrate and decorticate posturing.

Decerebrate decorticate posturing. Although it is serious it is usually not as serious as a type of abnormal posture called decerebrate posturing. Decorticate posture is stiff with legs held out straight fists. The nobel l.

In severe cases the back is acutely arched opisthotonus. Decorticate posturing a sign of severe damage to the brain is a specific type of involuntary abnormal posturing of a person. This abnormal posturing makes a person suffer from clenched fists bent arms and legs that are held out straight.

Decerebrate posturing is commonly seen in pontine strokes. This is a type of flexed posturing and can indicate damage to the cerebral hemispheres. Let s look at the differences between the two.

Unlike decorticate posturing decerebrate adjusted or 1 9 95 ci 1 0 3 5 and opisthotonic posturing adjusted or 2 9 95 ci 1 0 8 1 were in addition independently associated with recurrence. Decorticate posturing is a sign of damage to the nerve pathway between the brain and spinal cord. Decorticate and decerebrate posturing are both considered pathological posturing responses to usually noxious stimuli from an external or internal source.

However this is not as serious as decerebrate posture wherein the particular kind of posturing appears on both sides of one s body. Synonymous terms for decerebrate posturing include abnormal extension decerebrate rigidity extensor posturing or decerebrate response. Decerebrate posturing decerebrate rigidity abnormal extensor reflex is characterized by adduction and extension of the arms with the wrists pronated and the fingers flexed the legs are stiffly extended with plantar flexion of the feet.

A patient with decorticate posturing may begin to show decerebrate posturing or may go from one form of posturing to the other. Decorticate and decerebrate posturing. Decorticate posturing is a posturing that indicates a severe damage in the brain.