While assessing a patient with acute abdominal pain, you note that his abdomen is very rigid. When asked to relax his stomach muscles, he does. The EMT would recognize:

A) voluntary guarding.
B) rebound guarding.
C) false guarding.
D) involuntary guarding.

A

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