waxy flexibility
Statue-like limb retention
Waxy flexibility is a psychiatric symptom in which a person's limbs remain in whatever position they are placed by another, like a wax figure being posed.
The limb stays fixed rather than relaxing back to a natural position.
It occurs most characteristically in catatonic states: The patient demonstrated waxy flexibility, her arm remaining raised for several minutes after the examiner lifted it.
Insincere behavior for effect
- catalepsySeizure with waxy rigidity
- stuporSuspended sensibility
- mutismAbsence of speech
- immobilityLack of motion
negativism · echolalia · withdrawal · blank expression · mannerisms · grimacing · stereotypy
Psychotic disorder with delusions
- psychosisSevere reality detachment
- bipolar disorderExtreme mood cycling illness
- schizoaffectiveCombined psychotic and mood condition
- conversion disorderPsychological distress causing physical symptoms
Sedative-hypnotic drug class
- lorazepamAnti-anxiety sedative medication
- electroconvulsive therapyElectrical brain stimulation treatment
- antipsychoticsDrugs treating severe mental disorders
- supportive careMedical comfort without cure
hydration · nutritional support · monitoring · ECT · pharmacotherapy
posturing
Insincere behavior for effect
immobility · negativism · echolalia · withdrawal · blank expression · mannerisms · grimacing · stereotypy
schizophrenia
Psychotic disorder with delusions
- psychosisSevere reality detachment
- bipolar disorderExtreme mood cycling illness
- schizoaffectiveCombined psychotic and mood condition
physical examination
Medical evaluation of body
benzodiazepines
Sedative-hypnotic drug class
- lorazepamAnti-anxiety sedative medication
- electroconvulsive therapyElectrical brain stimulation treatment
- antipsychoticsDrugs treating severe mental disorders
supportive care · hydration · nutritional support · monitoring · ECT · pharmacotherapy
- Psychiatric Symptomshallucinations, delusions, paranoia, psychosis, flat affect
- catatoniacatalepsy, mutism, stupor, posturing, negativism
- psychosishallucinations, psychosis, delusions, delusion, schizophrenia
- mental symptomsanxiety, depression, paranoia, hallucination, delusion
waxy flexibilityrigidity
State of being unbending
spasticity · hypertonia · flaccidity · tetany · contracture
flexible, flexibility, waxy, inflexible, waxing, waxed, waxes, waxen, inflexibility