Decorticate Posture

This type of posturing is a sign of severe.

Decorticate posture. Decorticate posture usually results from stroke or head injury. It is the characteristic posture of a patient with a lesion at or above the upper brainstem. Decorticate posture is an abnormal posturing in which a person is stiff with bent arms clenched fists and legs held out straight.

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 a type of abnormal or pathologic posturing not to be mistaken with poor posture or slouching. 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 colloquially mummy baby.

The arms are bent in toward the body and the wrists and fingers are bent and held on the chest. 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.

Abnormal posturing is often an indication of certain types of injury to the brain or spinal cord. 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.

Traumatic brain injury decorticate posture definition. 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.