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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Nurse. 2023 Aug 1;43(4):58–65. doi: 10.4037/ccn2023449

Table 5.

Motor responses in unconscious patients1,4

Purposeful Localization: crossing midline of body in response to removing or stopping noxious stimulus
Withdrawal: flexing response toward noxious stimulus, not able to connect with stimulus
Nonpurposeful Muscle contraction
Abnormal flexion
Abnormal extension
No response