What do you mean by shaking your legs?
What do you mean by shaking your legs? Shaking your legs means that once you sit down, your legs will shake like sewing machines. One is habitual leg shaking, and the other is pathological leg shaking, also known as leg shaking syndrome or restless leg syndrome.
What causes leg trembling?
Habitual leg shaking is actually an action that people consciously suppress their bodies. Especially after sitting for a long time, the posture is too stiff or the seat is too high, the blood flow in the body is slow or not smooth, and the muscles are gradually stiff. At this time, they can't help shaking their legs. The constant shaking of their legs can promote the circulation of blood flow and change the discomfort of muscles, joints and limbs, thus relaxing muscles and relieving tension. Therefore, some people think that shaking your legs can distract your attention and release your anxiety. To some extent, it can improve the cognitive ability of your brain and improve your work efficiency. Therefore, the habitual shaking of legs may be due to sitting for too long or being too tired.
In addition, there is also pathological leg shaking, and patients will also have involuntary and uncontrollable leg shaking behavior. This is a central nervous system disease, which needs to be distinguished from habitual leg trembling. Usually divided into primary leg shaking and secondary leg shaking. Clinically, the occurrence of the disease is related to factors such as abnormal dopamine, heredity, iron deficiency or metabolic malnutrition.
What are the disadvantages of shaking your legs?
1. impolite
We are often taught to "sit standing", and shaking our legs is considered as the act of not sitting. Especially in public places, if you shake your legs so badly that the table shakes and even affects people around you, first of all, you will leave a very bad impression on others, and secondly, others will think you are rude.
2. Affect interpersonal relationships
Frequent shaking your legs can easily distract yourself and others, and it will make people feel that you are not listening to each other seriously, or you are not really talking to each other at all, giving people a feeling of fooling around, which will affect normal interpersonal relationships and even the success of your work.
3. It is easy to form psychological dependence
Most people shake their legs involuntarily when they are nervous or anxious to calm their emotions, but in fact, this is an unhealthy decompression behavior, which is very easy to form psychological dependence and difficult to quit. The behavior of shaking legs may solve anxiety at first, but it may aggravate anxiety later.
affect health
Frequently shaking your legs is easy to produce psychological dependence, and it is difficult to quit. Moreover, when shaking your legs, one leg presses the other leg, that is, crossing your legs. Such long-term compression of pelvis and hip joint will easily affect the blood circulation of lower limbs, and then cause discomfort symptoms such as muscle soreness, varicose veins and bone lesions.
In the final analysis, shaking your legs is an indecent act. Don't shake your legs in daily communication.