GelCool Systems

GelCool System's quick-change packs (2 second change out) allow you to keep your athletes and 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 or warming 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. To ensure that our gel packs are safe in the upper helmet, we performed rigorous lab testing at one of the nation's leading independent laboratories that is a NOCSAE-approved lab.  The lab not only performed the required NOCSAE drop testing, but also advanced new rotational testing. The test data clearly showed that in terms of the helmet’s ability to absorb/dissipate the external forces exerted upon the head by heavy blows which might cause concussions, the presence of the GelCool gel pack in the helmet never made the helmet perform worse and in many cases allowed it to provide some impact protection to the head.

In All Laboratory Testing the Football Helmet Performed As Well
at Concussion Prevention with the GelCool Gel Pack in Place

NOCSAE Certification Testing of the GelCool gel pack in the Riddell Revolution™ and Riddell VSR-4™ helmets is complete with the official finding "compliant as tested".  Click here to dowload a copy. The Riddell Revolution™ and VSR-4 helmets with the GelCool Systems gel pack passed NOCSAE directed drop testing performed by NOCSAE's certified testing lab. There were no tests in which the use of the gel pack in the helmet caused the  helmet to perform materially worse.  In some tests, the helmet actually performed better with the gel pack in place than it performed with no gel pack at all.

GelCool Systems is prepared to release our testing data to any party that wishes to review it.  Our data includes the results of a multitude of drop and rotational impact tests performed in a highly controlled, scientific lab which is approved by the major helmet manufacturers.  The rotational tests struck the helmet from many different angles at very high velocity (hundreds of G's).  The GelCool gel pack did not have a material adverse affect on the helmet performance in any of the tests.   The NOCSAE-prescribed drop testing was performed using various drop heights and g-forces.  The helmet also passed these tests with the GelCool gel pack in place, in fact slightly improving the helmet's performance.

If you have any questions pleas e-mail us at: info@gelcool.com and please scroll down this page to view photos and video from the testing.