A physiotherapist-led biopsychosocial education and exercise programme for patients with chronic low back pain in Ghana: a mixed-methods feasibility study.

Background: Low back pain is a common musculoskeletal condition which causes substantial disability globally. The biopsychosocial model of management has been recommended in national and international guidelines for the management of patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP). However, biopsychosocial approaches are predominantly delivered in high income countries (HICs), although the prevalence of LBP is substantially higher in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) especially in Africa (39%; 95% CI 30-47).

Enhancing Pump as Turbine (PAT) performances: A numerical investigation into the impact of impeller leading edge rounding.

Pump As Turbine (PAT) utility represents a major advance in the field of hydraulic engineering. This work aims to improve the PAT performance characteristics. The sharp impeller leading edge (original impeller) was revealed by flow analysis as exhibiting negative effects on the PAT performances due to flow separation and flow misalignment.

Barriers and facilitators to the delivery of a biopsychosocial education and exercise programme for patients with chronic low back pain in Ghana. A qualitative study.

Purpose: Low back pain management has evolved with researchers advocating for a biopsychosocial management model. The biopsychosocial management model has been predominantly applied in high-income countries and underexplored in low- and middle-income countries including Ghana. This study aimed to explore the potential barriers and facilitators to patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) and physiotherapists engagement with a biopsychosocial intervention (exercise and patient education) as part of a feasibility study.

Prediction method of centrifugal pump running in turbine mode based on losses analysis.

Interest of Pump as Turbine (PAT) is growing with diverse applications in engineering. Usually, the data of PATs are not available in the hands of pump manufacturers. Therefore, performance prediction methods appear as an important research area of PATs.

Numerical modeling and CFD simulation of diffuser augmented dual vertical axis hydrokinetic Banki-Michell turbine.

Hydrokinetic Banki turbines present an affordable, technically feasible, environmentally friendly technology. Their construction without requiring more expensive structures like diversion weirs, canals, forebay, and penstock, makes their initial investment much lower than commonly used horizontal Banki turbine of the same capacity. The possibility to install in the existing canals for Ultra Low Head applications is the additional motivating factor for this research.