Cool First. Transport Second.

"Death from exertional heat stroke is 100 percent preventable when proper recognition and treatment protocols are implemented..." 

"Cold water immersion is the most effective way to treat a patient with exertional heat stroke..."

"An athlete suffering from exertional heat stroke should always be cooled first (via cold water immersion) before being transported by EMS to an emergency facility..." 

Excerpts from the Executive Summary of National Athletic Trainers’ Association Position Statement on Exertional Heat Illnesses (2014)

Mike and Bill at the NATA Clinical Symposia and AT Expo
this summer in St. Louis, MO. 

The Polar Life Pod® is the only product expressly design for the purpose of cold water immersion... whenever and wherever needed! (Comparison of cooling technologies link)

Watch a Real Time Demonstration 

of the Polar Life Pod®:

The patent pending Polar Life Pod® was designed by Mike Laycox, a licensed athletic trainer, paramedic and former certified emergency room RN with over 30 years of clinical sports medicine, emergency room and EMS experience. 

See what Mike has to say about the Polar Life Pod®: 

Do you have questions about the Polar Life Pod®? 

www.polarlifepod.com 
Contact Mike Mockbee, Senior Product Manager 
E-mail: mike@polarproducts.com

Call: 1.800.763.8423

Calling All Athletic Trainers

Polar Products provides many different options for coaches, athletic trainers and directors who want to ensure that their athletes can continue to receive outstanding care.

The Coach's Sports Therapy Kit is an essential, on hands kit for commonly injured joints. It includes an item to help every athlete - whether it is for a shoulder, knee or both. This kit can be applied for both cold and heat therapy. Coaches, athletic trainers and directors can help benefit their athletes with all of these items.

Everything included within a Coach's Sports Therapy Kit from Polar Products

The Polar Life Pod™ is another new, innovative way to assist athletes who overheat. Our product is a portable, collapsible immersion system that goes where you go. Ice- or cold-water immersion has proven to be the best, quickest to bring down the body temperature of an overheated athlete and it is recommended to "Cool First, Transport Second" from the University of Connecticut's Korey Stringer Institute. 

The Polar Life Pod™ can help an athlete who it up to 7' tall and weighs up to 400 lbs.

Please visit the NATA website for more information or find them on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.