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07/12/2025

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06/12/2025

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06/12/2025

⭐ Posturing in Brain Injury: Decorticate vs Decerebrate

The image shows two abnormal body postures that appear in severe brain injury. These postures help identify where the brain lesion is located.

🔵 1. Decorticate Posturing (Abnormal Flexion)

How it looks:
• Arms flexed inward over the chest
• Hands clenched
• Legs extended and stiff

What it means:
• Damage is above the brainstem, usually in the:
• Cerebral hemispheres
• Internal capsule

Why it happens:
The brain injury interrupts pathways from the cortex, so the flexor muscles overpower extensors → causing the patient to bring arms toward the “core” → “de-COR-ticate = toward the core.”

🔴 2. Decerebrate Posturing (Abnormal Extension)

How it looks:
• Arms extended straight down
• Hands turned outward
• Legs extended and stiff
• Body may arch

What it means:
• Damage is below the red nucleus, involving:
• Midbrain
• Brainstem
• Pons

Why it happens:
Lower brainstem injury removes flexor control → extensor muscles dominate → causing rigid extension of arms and legs.

⚠️ Clinical Severity
• Decorticate = severe injury
• Decerebrate = more severe and worse prognosis because the lesion is deeper in the brainstem.

05/12/2025

Early HIV diagnosis and testing are important to:
✅start treatment and care if needed
✅reduce infections
✅reduce AIDS-related deaths

05/12/2025

The measles vaccine is highly effective. In Australia, two doses of the measles vaccine provides 99% protection against measles.

The measles vaccine is free under the National Immunisation Program for eligible people.

Measles vaccination is recommended for:
🔹children aged 12 months and over
🔹adolescents who have not received 2 doses of measles vaccine
🔹people born in 1966 or after who have not received 2 doses of the measles vaccine
🔹children 6 to 11 months old travelling overseas.

Talk to your health professional about getting protected against measles, if you haven’t been vaccinated already.

For more information, see the comments below 👇

05/12/2025

The world is built by those who care.

reflects the small but mighty steps volunteers take each day to shape a better tomorrow 🩶

Volunteers, thank you for all you do.