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What Is It/ |
How Is It Recognized/ |
Is Massage indicated |
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Condition Name |
What Are They? |
How Are They Recognized? |
or Contraindicated? |
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Lyme
disease is an infection |
Lyme
disease has three stages. |
Massage
is systematically contra- |
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of
several body systems, |
Stage
1 appears as a skin rash |
indicated
in the acute stages of |
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brought
about by exposure |
and
flu-like symptoms. Stage 2 |
this
and any other types of sys- |
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to
the spirochete Borrelia |
involves
one or more systems; |
temic
infections. |
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burgdorferi. It is transmit- |
the
nervous and circulatory sys- |
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ted
by deer ticks. |
tems
are most frequently in- |
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volved.
Stage 3 is chronic Lyme |
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disease,
and can involve arthri- |
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tis
and chronic neurologicai |
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syndromes. |
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