2023年10月1日 · A person with opisthotonos (also sometimes called “opisthotonic posturing”) will have very strong muscle spasms causing their neck and back to hyperextend. If they’re on their back, that causes their back to lift off the ground and raise the trunk of their body (their chest and abdomen) toward the sky or ceiling.

Opisthotonus is seen with drowning victims – called the "opisthotonic death pose". This pose is also common in complete dinosaur skeletal fossils and it has been suggested that this is due to the animal drowning or being immersed in water soon after death.

2024年3月7日 · Opisthotonos is the term that describes an abnormal posture that happens when the muscles in your neck, back, and legs spasm and contract. These contractions cause your body to bend backward...

2023年8月23日 · Opisthotonus is defined as a dramatic abnormal posture due to spastic contraction of the extensor muscles of the neck, trunk, and lower extremities that produces a severe backward arching from neck to heel.

2017年7月9日 · Opisthotonos is a type of abnormal posturing caused by strong muscle spasms. It mainly affects babies and young children because their nervous systems have not fully developed....

2017年8月10日 · Opisthotonos is a specific abnormal posture associated with conditions and injuries that impair brain and muscle function. The characteristic symptoms of opisthotonos are a severely...

2018年4月5日 · Opisthotonus, also known as opisthotonos, is a state of severe hypertension and spasticity where an individual’s head, neck and the spinal columns enter in to a complete arching or bridging position. This abnormal posturing is an extrapyramidal effect and is primarily caused by spasm of axial muscles and the spinal column.