Decorticate Posturing While Sleeping
If a family member or friend is involuntarily displaying this posturing.
Decorticate posturing while sleeping. Decorticate posturing is a sign of severe damage to the central nervous system more specifically to the brain. However this is not as serious as decerebrate posture wherein the particular kind of posturing appears on both sides of one s body. Decorticate posture is a sign of damage to the nerve pathway in the midbrain which is between the brain and spinal cord.
Decorticate posturing is also called decorticate response decorticate rigidity flexor posturing or colloquially mummy baby. Although decorticate posture is serious it is usually not as serious as a type of abnormal posture called decerebrate posture. Decorticate posture and sleeping problems and behaviour changes with irritability 2 causes decorticate posture and sleeping problems and more symptoms.
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. The midbrain controls motor movement. Causes of decorticate posture and sleeping problems.