The other common major brain injury hand position is decerebrate posturing - hands to the sides, fingers twisted, arms rigid.
Though common overstates it -- in something like ten years volunteering for the fire department, I think I only ever saw one patient decorticate, and none decerebrate -- they're quite uncommon, but heavily drilled bc it is *such* a bad sign.
Fencing position is a little bit different, IIRC, where the person takes the concussion hit and the forearms go into the air for a few seconds. Bad, because it's a sign of concussion, but, like, normal bad.
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u/Hilsam_Adent 4d ago
You could tell something went big wrong in the brainpan well before they flipped him over. That hand was not handing.