After assessing the best motor response of a client using the Glasgow Coma Scale, the nurse documents the score as 6. Which response of the client supports the nurse's documentation?

1. Obeys command to move
2. Withdraws from a painful stimulus
3. Flexion, abnormal decorticate posturing
4. Extension, abnormal decerebrate posturing


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