I was recently sent this infographic from The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
Infographics can be useful summaries. But sometimes when we summarize information, we can miss important things. How do you think this infographic does?
Source: Mount Sinai Medical Center
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I’m a huge fan of infographics but I think this one is trying to convey too much information. They could have shut it down after the 4% graphic and before the ‘types of headaches’. I think it would have had more impact. As it is, the message is diluted so much.
I agree with Dr. White. I love inforgraphics, but the info down past the 4% is a bit busy. I like the images, but way too much text. And whats up with these purple silohuettes of people at the bottom? What are they doing, is that large one receiving Botox? Which I know has been mentioned for migraines, but not mentioned in this piece?!?
I am a migraine sufferer and I have had botox now three times. The botox gives you a terrible headache almost right after the injection. I have stopped because the injections create the headaches and they are really bad. There is a web site that people who have had the botox injections say there have had a terrible headache after their injections. It is called Real Self. Visit it and see about all the people who are suffering with botox headaches. Botox doesn’t help…….
First, it’s great to see an effort to educate people about headaches. But as others have commented, there is too much material here for one infographic. It would be much more effective to have a series of infographics, something along the lines of: overview — prevalence and types of headaches; then a separate infographic on each type of headache; then easy remedies.
Also as others have commented, what’s up with the purple silhouette of an apparent injection? Or is that a desperate sufferer with a drill bit trying to open up a way for the pain to escape? (Bad joke.)
And finally, the cluttered graphic design gets in the way of easily reading the material. The discordant colors, large multidirectional arrows and reversed (i.e., white on color) type give me a “premigraine” queasy feeling.