Waxy flexibility
Catatonia psychomotor symptom / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Waxy flexibility is one of the twelve symptoms[1] that can lead to the diagnosis of catatonia. It is a psychomotor symptom[2] that results in a decreased response to stimuli and a tendency to remain in an immobile posture.[3] If one were to move the arm of someone with waxy flexibility, the patient would keep that arm where it had been positioned until moved again as if positioning malleable wax. Attempts to reposition the patient are met by "slight, even resistance".[4]