Lyme disease

[AndrewLewis]

I met an older gentlemen who has been affected pretty severely by Lyme disease over the years. He's extremely weak, walks with a cane, and is having balance problems and falls. He needs to get stronger, but I'm concerned that he's not in a position to adapt because of the Lyme disease. He's in treatment and doing better.

Have you worked with anyone with Lyme disease or post Lyme disease?

The other posts on the boards seems to be "your first priority needs to be to fix your Lyme disease. Forget about training for a minute," but there aren't many posts.

Thanks for the time.

[Mark Rippetoe]

I have had no experience with it. We'll ask the board.

[Alexander Dargatz]

I don't have experience with clients as I'm not a coach, but as a medical doctor (from a different specialty, not treating Lyme patients) I want to point out that "Lyme disease" is not specific enough. It seems this gent has either a rare chronical expression or the post Lyme snydrome (also pretty rare).
We need to know what the symptoms are or what the affected organ is. Arthritis, myocarditis, encephalopathy and others can be delayed consequeces of a Lyme disease, which is a bacterial infection. The post Lyme syndrome is basically chronic fatigue, pain and/or depression.

[Jdcuth]

Not sure of his exact case - chronic Lyme disease is a controversial topic to say the least. You will probably get the most info just by gauging how receptive he is to the idea of training. If he has a positive approach an extremely cautious NLP may do more for him than everything else combined.