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What Type of Posturing Exists When a Person with a Severe

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What type of posturing exists when a person with a severe closed head injury has all four extremities in rigid extension with the forearms in hyperpronation and the legs in plantar extension?


A) Decorticate
B) Decerebrate
C) Spastic
D) Cerebellar

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