Costello thumped his leg, jerking his knee high in the air, angry-young-man style.
We think it is an involuntary response, a reflex, like when your leg jerks after being tapped on the knee.
Did you have repeated rhythmic leg jerks or leg twitches during your sleep?
Right leg jerking was witnessed at onset on one occasion and post-ictal EEG showed focal slowing over the left hemisphere.
Her arms and legs jerked with the same random frequency.
My legs jerked, pedaling robotically, like the stiff Tin Man in need of oil: stop, start, stop, start.
She was dressed in a dark slip, and her long arms and legs jerked and twitched in an atmosphere composed of strewn papers, lamps, a microphone, and a scrim devised by her frequent collaborator and husband, Peter Born.
Earlier, documents filed in court describing the video's contents said that for 14 to 15 seconds the officer, Jason Van Dyke, unloaded his entire gun into the teen, who is seen laying face down on the ground, his arms and legs jerking from the impact of the shots.
For 14 to 15 seconds, according the documents prepared by the state's attorney's office, the officers unloads his entire gun into the teen, who spends 13 seconds laying face down on the pavement with his arms and legs jerking from the shots making contact with his body.
The tics are usually overlooked, but can develop into tardive dyskinesia (manifested by a freakish "involuntary tongue" that darts out of the mouth, twitching or "running" legs, jerking or wildly swinging arms and gagging).
