Effectiveness of an Intervention Combining Adapted Physical Activity and Therapeutic Education in Patients With Chronic Symptoms Attributed to Lyme Borreliosis.

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorCentre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne

About this trial

Lyme borreliosis, commonly known as Lyme disease, has been clinically described for more than a century, but has been officially recognized for 40 years, with the detection of the Borrelia bacterium by W. Burgdorfer, in ticks of the Ixodes ricinus complex, identified a few years before.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Patient referred to the reference center for tick-borne diseases by his attending physician

Duration of symptoms >6 months

At the end of the initial assessment, the diagnosis of functional somatic disorders is retained after consensus between the physicians

Patient practicing less than 150 minutes of regular physical activity per week (WHO recommendations)

Disqualifiers

Patients with cardiac or respiratory pathologies that contraindicate the practice of physical activity physical activity

Important comorbidities contraindicating the practice of physical activity: associated cardiac pathologies associated cardiac pathologies (severe rhythm disorders such as rapid atrial fibrillation), respiratory pathologies respiratory pathologies (obstructive or severe restrictive respiratory insufficiency), disabling joint pathologies joint pathologies (gonarthrosis or coxarthrosis limiting training on a treadmill or on a high-intensity bicycle). intensity cycling).

Patients under guardianship or curatorship

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • physical activity program
  • Advice and recommendations of physical activity at home

Treatment groups

62 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups