Which apraxia is evidenced by an inability to execute simple requests involving the right arm or leg and may manifest as using the hand as an object rather than pretending to use it?

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Limb apraxia reflects a disturbance in planning and executing purposeful movements with the limbs, even though strength and sensation are intact and the person understands the task. When someone cannot perform simple on-command movements of the right arm or leg and may end up using the hand as if it were an object rather than pantomiming the action, this points to a disruption in the neural planning for limb actions rather than a problem with comprehension, dressing, or concept of tool use. This pattern commonly arises from left-hemisphere damage affecting parietal–premotor networks. Dressing apraxia would show difficulties with clothing and sequencing of dressing, ideational apraxia with impaired conceptual use and sequencing of objects, and ideomotor apraxia with trouble performing gestures on command but sometimes retaining automatic actions—making limb apraxia the best fit for the described presentation.