exercise blues

I will summarize a little on my above comment.

The longer someone has lyme and / or how much they partake in hard physical activity (athletes or physical jobs) has something to do with developing the lumpy muscles and tendons which are knots and adhesions which shorten muscles and put pressure on nerves. Short tight muscles and pinched neves do not combine welll with standard pyhsical therapy programs which involve muscle strengthening. The adhesions, lumpy muscles, knots and tendonitis must be delt with first. This is actual physical damage, which can remain after lyme is gone. So it must be fixed independently of lyme treatment.

ABX does not repair damaged tissue, but can stop new damage from occurring, since the cause was the messed up chemical balance in your tissues caused by the bacteria in the first place..

So when the CDC says lyme arthritis is an untreatable after effect of lyme, this might be what they noticed. However, they are wrong to say its untreatable. And calling all lyme body pain "arthritis" is also incorrect, unless the joints themselves are inflamed and swollen.

For lyme newbies, newly infected, they most likely will have less and sometimes no muscle adhesion or tendon issues. If that is the case and their muscles just feel weak, a PT muscles strengthening program is more successful.

There is also some proof that if your body will tolerate heavy muscle workouts (if or when it reaches that point), the oxygen absorbed by the larger muscle groups will kill some of the bacteria in the muscles at the cellular level. This does work for some people as proven by some LL PT's (for lack of a better term). I have not reached that point yet. My tendons are still weak, but stronger than in the past.

And many of my muscle adhesion's are gone. When all of the little and big muscles in the back and neck are stuck together, it takes a long time to get them to glide over each other again. Trigger point release and Active release is what helped this.