Decorticate Response Posturing

Decorticate posture is stiff with legs held out straight fists clenched and arms bent to hold the hands on the chest.

Decorticate response posturing. Decorticate posturing is a posturing that indicates a severe damage in the brain. 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. Both involve stereotypical movements of the trunk and extremities and are typically indicative of significant brain or spinal injury.

Abnormal posturing is often an indication of certain types of injury to the brain or spinal cord. There is a criticism within the literature of the use of the terms decorticate and decerebrate posturing in clinical contexts due to their association with discrete anatomical locations that in reality may. 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 posturing is described as abnormal flexion of the arms with the extension of the legs. Decorticate and decerebrate posturing are both considered pathological posturing responses to usually noxious stimuli from an external or internal source. Decorticate posturing is a type of abnormal or pathologic posturing not to be mistaken with poor posture or slouching.

Decorticate posturing is also called decorticate response decorticate rigidity flexor posturing 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. Synonymous terms for decerebrate posturing include abnormal extension decerebrate rigidity extensor posturing or decerebrate response.

This abnormal posturing makes a person suffer from clenched fists bent arms and legs that are held out straight. The arms are bent in toward the body and the wrists and fingers are bent and held on the chest. 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. A sign of corticospinal damage decorticate rigidity decorticate posture abnormal flexor response is characterized by adduction of the arms and flexion of the elbows with wrists and fingers flexed on the chest the legs are extended and internally rotated with plantar flexion of the feet. Decorticate posturing is also called decorticate response decorticate rigidity flexor posturing or colloquially mummy baby.