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Periodic Limb Movement Disorder

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Doing the Jerk
Periodic limb movement disorder causes stylized jerks and twitches to the lower limbs that occur at intervals of from twenty to sixty seconds and are sometimes so exact that they seem almost to have been choreographed.

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