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09/10/2025

Now, more than ever, this blog post feels important to share again. It can feel overwhelming to try to dive into analyzing an article or research, but this skill is really critical.

As healthcare providers, it's essential to ensure we are familiar with the research and can effectively share it in a clear and unbiased manner, providing our clients with the most effective care.

It can change the way you use the information Without taking a critical view of an article, I have fallen into the trap of taking the author’s word for it by just reading the discussion, which can be dangerous. Why? If you read the discussion and takeaways and the authors report positive resul

08/27/2025

As we head into the start of the school year, here are a bundle of evidence-based infographics we have created for occupational therapy and school across the lifespan. Our most popular one is OTs Role in School-Based Practices (shown below).

🎓 Educational Burnout in Occupational Therapy Students
💪🏾 Using a Strengths-Based Approach Across the Lifespan
🏫 Implementing an RTI Visual and Fine Motor Intervention
📓 OTs Role in School-Based Practice
🤲🏿 Trauma-Informed OT in School-Based Practice
🪩 Benefits of Sensory Rooms in Schools
📝 Handwriting Milestones

Find them all here: www.otgraphically.com/infographics

07/23/2025

New Infographic: The Evidence-Based Benefits of Babywearing 👶🏻

Wearing my baby has been one of the most unexpectedly beautiful parts of motherhood. 💛 But without the right support and resources I probably would have thrown in the towel early on.

I decided to check out the research to see what were the evidence-based impacts behind it. I learned babywearing actually helps with bonding, reduces crying, supports their hip development, improves feeding and so much more which made sense from my experience. Oh also and it said there was some back pain too- that one was accurate as well!

I think OTs could find themselves being able to educate about this topic in a variety of settings so I wanted to make an infographic about it. I also took some time to share my personal story in a blog post.

To download this infographic or read the blog visit: www.otgraphically.com/blog/the-evidence-based-benefits-of-babywearing

Thank you to .ot for your support and guidance on this topic too!

06/09/2025

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09/06/2024

This infographic was created based on the work of Chloe Muntefering, MS, OTR/L, Occupational Science PhD Candidate’s research dissertation.

The pdf includes:

💡 Inspiration of Chloe’s research
🏥 The need for change with the current model
🧍🏾‍♂️ How occupational therapy may be that solution
📚 Research overview
📌 Key takeaways
🚀 Future directions

This is great information to know for anyone interested in supporting occupational therapy incorporating more into primary care and can be used to advocate for that role with administration, policy makers, and the community.

🚧 For educational purposes only

08/22/2024

As we head into the start of the school year, here are a bundle of evidence-based infographics we have created for occupational therapy and school across the lifespan:

🎓 Educational Burnout in Occupational Therapy Students
💪🏾 Using a Strengths-Based Approach Across the Lifespan
🏫 Implementing an RTI Visual and Fine Motor Intervention
📓 OTs Role in School-Based Practice
🤲🏿 Trauma-Informed OT in School-Based Practice
🪩 Benefits of Sensory Rooms in Schools
📝 Handwriting Milestones

Find them all here: www.otgraphically.com/infographics

07/29/2024

This topic is pretty personal for me. When my son struggled with feeding challenges, we tried a lot of different things. I was told at first he did have a tongue tie/lip tie that was impacting his feeding and then I was told that he did not. It was all very confusing during a time where I was sleep deprived and not really sure how to move forward. I just dreaded each feeding knowing it would be very dramatic, leading to a lot of spit up and discomfort for both of us.

I wish I had created this infographic before my first kid, but it’s never to late and research is updating constantly. A lot of the research in this infographic had similar results across a lot of studies. I’ve heard a lot of clinical opinions that people are doing this too often or that it is not done enough. If this is confusing as clinicians, imagine how confusing it is for caregivers.

The impact of knowing the signs of potential tongue or lip tie is huge for families that are struggling with breastfeeding. The earlier to identify it, the better for everyone involved. There is also a lot of information out in the public about doing body work pre/post ties, personally this was somewhat helpful for us but it wasn’t until the actual tongue release that I noticed any differences. I have not looked into any studies about this yet but plan to in the future.

I hope you can use this information to share with your families why you may be requesting to get an assessment for a tongue/lip to, or to share with dentists or health professionals why this may be a recommendation you have as an occupational therapist.

📑Go to the link in our bio to download this infographic today. If you’ve found our resources helpful, we now have a tip jar which you can find in our links as well.

I’m curious what your experience has been with infants pre or post tongue tie and if you found this infographic helpful.

02/24/2024

Trying to navigate healthcare information in today's world is so challenging because there is so much to sort through AND we have to make sure it is legitimate and not being shared to promote a product or for someone else's benefit.

Infographics are one solution to this problem. Being able to share clearly, easily, and evidence-based information this way, has been our mission at OT Graphically.

What are other ways you can think of that would help solve this problem of information overload to help others learn accurate health care solutions?

02/20/2024

These days it can be really hard for clinicians to navigate through all the information coming at them. Disseminating research is becoming more and more of a need to help capture people's attention and help them utilize the information quickly. If you are a researcher and are looking to support the dissemination process yourself, check out our blog post on a few ways to help you brainstorm and get started!

https://www.otgraphically.com/research-blog/diy-research-dissemination

02/13/2024

One trick to staying up-to-date is following the authors who are researching your topic area of interest on X. They often post as soon as something is published, so you won't miss any time getting the information you need.

I've created, and will continue to update this OT Researcher Database to help both researchers get the word out and OTs to find their work.

If you are a researcher, and would like you information added DM me your Name and where you'd like people to follow your work!

https://www.otgraphically.com/blog/ot-researcher-database

02/09/2024

We make sure that what we do in OT Graphically has evidence behind it.

Here is the support that what we are doing is helping others be able to stay up to date. I have seen this from experience, received feedback from others, and have the evidence to support it. When thinking about the 3 parts of EBP, infographics check all the boxes.

Many stakeholders, both professional and community members, have little time to read the vast amount of published literature in their field, specialty or area of interest. A well-designed infographic overcomes both these challenges.” (Eljiz et al., 2020, p.4)

Eljiz, K., Greenfield, D., Hogden, A., Taylor, R., Siddiqui, N., Agaliotis, M., & Milosavljevic, M. (2020). Improving knowledge translation for increased engagement and impact in healthcare. BMJ open quality, 9(3), e000983.

02/06/2024

This letter was written from a place of frustration when navigating providing services for occupational therapy and getting denied on what I knew was appropriate, evidence-based, and medically necessary.



I think the hardest part about it is that our value is measured by time and not by quality of the care or the therapeutic relationship. I can't always get that done in 8-12 visits, 3 weeks, or on a monthly basis. Every single person is different and therefore ever case should be considered that way.



I don't want to sugar coat it, it can be really hard to deal with insurance issues on a daily basis and is not a part of what we probably saw ourselves doing when we signed up to become an OT student.



I've never sent this letter but would love one day to present it in-person to insurance companies to help them understand how much of a difficulty this can be on care.

For those of you in the midst of this right now, know that you are not alone!

Read it here: https://www.otgraphically.com/blog/an-open-letter-to-insurance-companies