Decorticate Posturing Newborn
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 newborn. Decorticate posture is stiff with legs held out straight fists clenched and arms bent to hold the hands on the chest. 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. This abnormal posturing makes a person suffer from clenched fists bent arms and legs that are held out straight.
Decorticate posturing is also called decorticate response decorticate rigidity flexor posturing or colloquially mummy baby. Decorticate posturing is a posturing that indicates a severe damage in the brain. Decorticate posturing is a type of abnormal or pathologic posturing not to.
However this is not as serious as decerebrate posture wherein the particular kind of posturing appears on both sides of one s body. Decorticate posturing is also called decorticate response decorticate rigidity flexor posturing or colloquially mummy baby.