(ISSN 2573-4393)
OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal published quarterly online by LIDSEN Publishing Inc. It covers all evidence-based scientific studies on integrative, alternative and complementary approaches to improving health and wellness.
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It publishes a variety of article types: Original Research, Review, Communication, Opinion, Comment, Conference Report, Technical Note, Book Review, etc.
There is no restriction on paper length, provided that the text is concise and comprehensive. Authors should present their results in as much detail as possible, as reviewers are encouraged to emphasize scientific rigor and reproducibility.
Publication Speed (median values for papers published in 2023): Submission to First Decision: 5.9 weeks; Submission to Acceptance: 14.7 weeks; Acceptance to Publication: 8 days (1-2 days of FREE language polishing included)
Special Issue
Yoga Therapy and Its Role as a Complementary Healing Modality
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2022 (Open) Submit Now
Guest Editor
Vidhi Sadana, Yoga Therapist (Biography)
Rheumatology Unit, Central Middlesex Hospital, London, UK.
Research interests: yoga, yoga therapy, behavioural interventions, recovery, mental health
About the topic:
Yoga Therapy is a self-empowering process, where the care-seeker, with the help of the yoga therapist, implements a personalised and evolving yoga practice, a unique practice that includes an appropriate selection of tools from among the wide range of possibilities Yoga has to offer.
A wide range of conditions can be alleviated or managed through Individualised Yoga therapy. Yoga therapy not only addresses illnesses with a multi-dimensional approach - physical, energetic, mental, behavioural, and emotional-, but also aims to alleviate suffering in a progressive, non-invasive and complementary manner. Depending on the nature of the illness, Yoga Therapy can be preventative, curative, or a means to manage illness, or it can facilitate healing in the person at all levels. It is a non-invasive and holistic approach to healing that includes a wide range of Yoga therapy tools including postures, breath regulation, meditation, dietary recommendations, lifestyle suggestions, chanting, visualisations / affirmations, special energetic seals, symbolic gestures and guided self-inquiry. Yoga therapy practices are tailor-made to suit the needs and capacities of each student and honour not only the conditions they suffer from, but also their own experience of their illnesses and in their unique context of life.
High quality research is needed to create an evidence-base for yoga therapy’s integration as a complementary healing modality and to inform practices and policies that will support an individual’s physical, mental, emotional and behavioural health. Potential topics include but not limited to-
- Feasibility studies aimed to prevent and manage long-term conditions and mood-disorders.
- Secondary data analyses of multi-level factors associated with chronic and mood-disorders.
- Mixed method studies that investigates the potential role of yoga therapy in managing symptoms of long-covid.
- Efficacy and effectiveness studies that focus on role of yoga therapy in managing medically unexplained symptoms such as chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia.
- Mechanistic studies to guide future basic and clinical research, targeting use of yoga therapy in treatment of stress-mediated psychological disorders.
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Vidhi is a Clinical yoga therapist; mentor for yoga therapy training in Krishnamacharya tradition. She holds a MSc in Public health from Kings College London.
Mirela Olympia Fagarasan Palmer
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Zhong-Ting (Justin) is a PhD student from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He holds BSc in Applied Chemistry and MSc in Environmental Engineering. He was a R&D researcher of NanoMaterials Technology Pte Ltd in Singapore (2006-2012). His current research interests are functional nanomaterials synthesis & design, and their application into environmental/chemical engineering. He has published near 60 SCI papers in Applied Catalysis B, Chemical Engineering Journal and so on with H-Index 23. He also serviced as reviewers over 40 Journals such as Appl. Catal. B, Water Research, Chem. Eng. J, ACS Applied Materials & Interface, etc. He was honored such as “The Bsic Research Achievment 1st Award of CIESC”, “The ZJUT Fund Breeding Distinguished Young Scholars” etc.
Rolf Teschke studied Medicine in Munich and Marburg, where he finished his MD thesis before starting a residency at the Department of Pathology, University of Marburg. Subsequently and with a fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgmeinschaft, he worked at the Bronx VA Hospital/Mount Sinai Hospital in New York during 1972–1975 together with Professor Charles S. Lieber and successfully isolated MEOS and expanded its characterization. Back in Germany, he was at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf with a focus on alcoholic liver disease, biochemical drug studies, and clinical intoxications by halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbons, where he became a Professor of Medicine. In 1987, he was offered a chief position and appointed as Director of the Medical Department II, City Hospital Hanau, Teaching Hospital of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. His clinical and research interests are on liver injury by drugs and herbs including causality assessment by RUCAM in close association with Dr. Gaby Danan in Paris. A perfect cooperation exists also with Professor Tran Dang Xuan of the University of Hiroshima, Japan. Finally, he is the author of more than 275 publications including books and book chapters, and he is editor in chief of scientific journals and member of editorial boards.