Glossary
Canadian Working Group on HIV and Rehabilitation (CWGHR): A Canadian organization started in 2007 to help address the rehabilitation needs of people living with HIV.
Disability: A word used by rehabilitation professionals to refer to the health-related challenges faced by the person they are helping.
Electrotherapy: The use of electrical stimulation on the body to reduce pain and/or increase function.
Episodic condition: A condition that causes you to have periods when you are feeling well mixed with periods when you are feeling unwell.
Lipodystrophy: changes to the way your body looks due to fat loss or fat gain in parts of the body.
Rehabilitation/Rehab: Any healthcare service that helps you prevent or deal with any health-related challenges you might face in your life.
Rehabilitation professional: A person that provides rehabilitation services. We focus on three main professions in this e-guide: occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and speech-language pathology.
Self-management: A set of actions a person living with a health condition may take to better cope with the effect of the condition on their health.