Trauma-Tek™ technology offers a unique combination of materials that add comfort and reduce blunt, vibrational and static trauma. We utilize a rate dependent polymer foam, Confor® which softens and conforms to your body when exposed to its warmth, allowing gentle, virtually pressure-free support.  Unlike common urethane or other memory foams, when Confor® foam takes a direct blow, its shock absorption characteristics enable it to help reduce impact energy by as much as 90%.  Here’s how…

Seats must be comfortable, reduce fatigue and in some cases, help protect the occupant from injury.  For these reasons, Confor® foam has been used by NASA and airline carriers in many of their seats for passengers and crew.

This rate dependent polymer foam, Confor®, acts like a spring, returning a force that is directly proportional to the amount that it is deflected.  It allows better blood flow to restricted area.  Short-term effects of lack of proper blood flow can result in soreness, fatigue and in long-term, could include skin inflammations or bed sores.

When used, Trauma-Tek™ pads and seat savers collapse conforming to body shapes and seem to be “soft” when pressure is applied relatively slowly, then they relax under load allowing even distribution of pressure across the body and stressed areas, reducing pressure points.  This ability to dissipate energy directly converts energy into low-grade heat which gives the material its rate responsiveness.

The dynamic properties of the rate dependent polymer foam, Confor® are dramatically stiffer when deformed at higher strain rates.  Under high velocity shock or blunt trauma, these materials will react much stiffer than they do statically.  This strain rate-sensitive stiffness behavior is the primary reason that Confor® foams can provide excellent shock protection with a minimal amount of sway space.  This behavior allows Confor® foam to resist "bottoming out" and helps provide dissipation of blunt trauma.  With these properties, properly applied, virtually no energy may be returned to the impacting body.

Our Trauma-Tek™ padding responds to temperatures and when placed against the warmth of the body, molds around that part of the body which contributes to the equal distribution of applied loads.  This distribution eliminates pressure points, thus eliminating vascular restriction improving comfort particularly over long-term use.

Because our pads and seat savers are sensitive to extreme temperature changes, in extreme cold weather, they will stiffen and in excessive heat become extra soft.  With body temperatures and proper storage, this sensitivity will dissipate.

Trauma-Tek™ technology enhances the life long capabilities of our pads, offering our customers the best product on the market today.

Please view below showing actual impact graphs as well as care instructions for your Trauma-Tek™ pads.

Graphs & Drawings show Confor® foam compared to regular urethane foams and heat displacement.

Figure 1: Our rate dependent polymer foam, Confor® vs urethane foam. In dropping a 16.9 lb weight from 24 inches onto a 25 inch square sample of foam.

Our padding responds to temperatures and when placed against the warmth of the body, molds around that part of the body, which contributes to the equal distribution of applied loads.  This distribution eliminates pressure points, thus eliminating vascular restriction, improving comfort particularly over long-term use.

Figure 2: heat displacement

Before sitting on Trauma-Tek™	After sitting on Trauma-Tek™