Decorticate Posturing Seizure

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 seizure. Unilateral dystonic posturing of an upper extremity is an interesting phenomenon that occurs typically in seizures of temporal lobe origin. Decorticate posture is stiff with legs held out straight fists. It is always contralateral to the side of the predominant ictal discharge which is generally the side where the seizure started.

Decorticate and decerebrate posturing. Abnormal posturing is a symptom of an injury disease or illness. 1 it is a clinically useful lateralizing sign particularly when complex partial seizures do not generalize version and focal clonic movements are good lateralizing signs for complex partial seizures becoming generalized.

My husband began having what looked like grand mal seizures about three months ago a month or so after a stroke he was 27 and roughly six weeks ago he began developing left sided decorticate posturing shoulder pulled forward elbow extended wrist outwardly turned and fingers straight but flexed at the mcp jt. Decorticate posturing is also called decorticate response decorticate rigidity flexor posturing or colloquially mummy baby. This abnormal posturing makes a person suffer from clenched fists bent arms and legs that are held out straight.

Decorticate posturing may occur on one or both sides of the body. Prevention lies in getting timely treatment. Decorticate posturing is a posturing that indicates a severe damage in the brain.

Although it is serious it is usually not as serious as a type of abnormal posture called decerebrate posturing. Decorticate posturing is a sign of damage to the nerve pathway between the brain and spinal cord. Decorticate posture and seizures and abnormal extensor reflex 7 causes decorticate posture and seizures and decerebrate posture 7 causes decorticate posture and seizures and decerebrate rigidity 7 causes decorticate posture and seizures and headache 7.

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.