GelCool is the Professional's Choice for Helmet Cooling/Warming Systems
Our systems use GelCoolTM professional-grade gel packs (patent-pending). These gel packs are worn inside the helmet or hard hat (in contact with the top of the user's head) to provide cooling or warming, and interlace with existing helmet shock padding. GelCool Systems products are specifically designed for major helmet models to maintain the helmet's fit and alignment as designed, tested, and certified by the helmet manufacturer. While GelCool gel packs are cooling they are also rapidly pulling the heat away from the user's head by thermal induction. This delivers far greater cooling than using the helmet's small air vents, with no "freezing sensation" or discomfort. GelCool Systems gel packs are formulated to maintain proper, safe temperature in the 42 -55 degree range when cooling. Both laboratory and field testing have shown that significant active cooling continues for up to 30 minutes with our products. Gel packs taken out of a professional football player's helmet after 20 minutes of live, full-contact testing in 95 degree August practice are still more than 20 degrees cooler than the body. GelCool gel packs weigh only 7 ounces and take about 2 seconds to insert or remove.
GelCool gel packs deliver the most cooling available per pound of equipment to deal with challenges such as football practice heat, desert military deployment, and workplace heat. When used for warming, the gel packs provide heat directly to the top of the head. GelCool's unique high-tech gel formulation allows us to provide unprecedented cooling and warming duration. Please Note: The use of GelCool Systems products is only part of an overall thermal safety program which must include proper hydration and core body temperature management.
Our systems provide safety you can afford. They range in price from $290 for an individual system to $3,050 for a high school system, and $7,300 for a college/pro sports team or extra large workplace system. Click Football Systems to go directly to our Football Systems page. Click here for more detailed pricing information.
Riddell RevolutionTM and VSR-4TM Football Helmets Pass NOCSAE Certification Test with GelCool Gel Pack Click for Details
GelCool System's quick-change packs allow you to keep your professionals safe, effective and in-service. Our gel packs are not a part of the helmet or a helmet attachment, but are a personal cooling device that aligns with the helmet's existing anti-trauma pads or suspension webbing. Most importantly, GelCool Systems products are manufactured to the highest professional standards, providing the dependable service that professionals require. Please note: GelCool System's products are not designed to provide protection from physical trauma to the head - our products provide cooling or warming only. To ensure that our gel packs are safe in the upper helmet, we performed rigorous lab testing at SIRC, one of the nations leading helmet testing labs and a NOCSAE-approved lab. SIRC not only performed the required NOCSAE drop testing, but also new rotational testing. The presence of the GelCool gel pack in the helmet never made the helmet perform worse in the tests and in many cases made it perform better!
GelCool System's Gel Packs Keep Your Personnel Significantly Safer in the Most Extreme Temperature Environments
While the body is trying to release 60% of its heat through the head, current helmet cooling consists of passive air flow through very small openings on the top of the helmet. Since these openings have a very limited passive effect, GelCool Systems places an active cooling system (cooling gel packs) in the upper helmet. There is a huge cooling differential between passive cooling and GelCool System's new active cooling technique. In the winter, GelCool's gel packs provide active warming to head, which is where the body loses up to 60% of its heat. Our active warming is far more effective than any stocking cap worn in the helmet, and stocking caps significantly alter the helmet's fit, reducing the helmet's effectiveness as personal protective equipment.
"Like a Soft, Cold, Pillow in the Helmet" - "Fits Like a Glove".
GelCool Systems help manage cranial/brain blood temperature, which enhances safety and performance. Gel packs are worn from the beginning of the thermal exposure, which helps maintain proper cranial blood temperature. We use a patented thermal distribution system that graduates delivery over a long period of time, avoiding potential discomfort and providing more uniform, lasting cooling. Unlike simple wet (evaporative) ice packs and cold packs, or winter stocking caps, GelCool Systems professional-grade gel packs maintain critical helmet/hard hat fit and alignment.
GelCool Systems and Brain Thermoregulation
GelCool Systems products reduce the risk of heat stress and heat related illnesses such as heat stoke (and hypothermia in the winter). We provide personal cooling (or warming) devices that not only play a significant role in the avoidance of illness, but also allow organizations to structure thermal safety programs to ensure personnel safety and peak performance. Even the mildest forms of heat stress or hypothermia can cause weakness, dizziness, and lack of concentration. One of the more common mild forms of heat illness, heat cramps, can seriously affect your professional's performance. Heat cramps are muscular pains and spasms due to heavy exertion. They usually involve the abdominal muscles or the legs. Over 20% of heat stroke victims die regardless of health or age. In some cases, the side effects of heat stroke are heat sensitivity and varying degrees of brain and kidney damage.
Research by Cabanac and Brinnel shows that during hyperthermia (exercise-induced heat stress), blood flow is increased from the skin of the head into the cranial cavity, and this increase is essential for proper cooling of the brain (1). Brain temperature changes are important to both the energy metabolism of the brain and the function of the preoptic-hypothalamic thermostat. Heat is produced by cellular energy metabolism and is transferred to the arterial blood in inverse relation to its temperature, which is lower than that of the brain in normal conditions. Brain homeothermy is altered essentially by quantitative imbalances between metabolic heat production and heat loss. Conditions that inhibit homeothermy may result in confusion, irrational behavior, convulsions, coma, and in the worst cases, death.
Professional cooling systems as a part of an overall thermal safety program and personnel safety program are more important than ever.
Cold-Climate Warming
Users in cold climates may use GelCool's gel packs for warming. Our gel packs have been designed using professional-grade materials that can be safely warmed to help keep users comfortable and more safe in extremely cold climates. Instead of altering the fit of helmets by inserting wool caps or other warmers that were not designed for use with a helmet, the use of GelCool gel packs maintains the important helmet fit and alignment while improving personnel safety and comfort. GelCool Systems makes the only professional-grade head gel packs, designed for use in real-world, rugged environments.
To learn more about the unique (patent-pending) design of our products, please visit our Technical Overview page, or go directly to our Sports or Workplace Products pages. For more supporting medical information about brain stress or injury please visit the Brain Injury Association at http://www.biausa.org/ or the American Academy of Neurology at http://www.aan.com/.
For More Information About GelCool Systems Products Please Send Us an Email at info@gelcool.com
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| GelCool Advanced Design Gel Pack in a Riddell RevolutionTM Helmet - Click to View Full Size Image |
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