Decorticate

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Decorticate Posturing

Upper limbs
• Slow flexion of the fingers, wrists
Flexion of the elbows
• Adduction and internal rotation at the shoulder

Lower limbs
• Extension and internal rotation at the hip
• Extension of the knee
• Plantar flexion of the feet
• Abduction and hyperextension of toes

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Reference
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559135/

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