GCSE Drama 4240 helps students develop an understanding of many creative and challenging activities. Candidates are free to choose any of the controlled assessment options offered in this specification, including:
Claudication is pain and/or cramping in the lower leg due to inadequate blood flow to the muscles. The pain usually causes the person to limp. The word claudication comes from the Latin claudicare meaning to limp. Claudication typically is felt while walking, and subsides with rest.
intermittent claudication pain, tension, and weakness in the legs on walking, which intensifies to produce lameness and is relieved by rest; it is seen in occlusive arterial disease. jaw claudication a complex of symptoms like those of intermittent claudication but seen in the muscles of mastication in giant cell arteritis. neurogenic claudication that accompanied by pain and paresthesias in the back, buttocks, and legs that is relieved by stooping, caused by mechanical disturbances due to posture or by ischemia of the cauda equina. venous claudication intermittent claudication due to venous stasis. claudication (klÃ´â²dÄ­-kÄâ²shÉn) n. 1.