About übertherm

übertherm is a cold compression therapy company unlike any other brand on the market. We use patent-pending technology to support fast healing and pain relief with our knee wraps, elbow wraps, shoulder wraps, and foot and ankle wraps. Our story was born out of pain, but now it is our purpose.

We believe cooling without freezing is the key to your body healing faster.

Our Story: From Pain to Purpose

Sometimes bad things have to happen to make way for good. Our company came to be when our founder—a medical research scientist—attempted an especially unforgiving move on a rock-climbing wall and ruptured his elbow tendon.

The elbow injury was bad. He quickly sought out medical treatment and physical therapy—medical professionals recommended using an ice compression wrap to help with the pain and inflammation.

When he tried to use traditional cold therapy wraps, he found that:

• Seconds after putting the ice wrap on, he felt like his skin was burning and he took it off
• He constantly stuffed and unstuffed the wrap with towels, unable to find relief
• He tried many other brands, but they were all more or less the same—freezing cold and painful
• No matter what he tried, the freezing sensation of the ice wrap would get to be too much

Does this sound familiar?

For a while, there seemed to be no end to his pain, but—being the nerd that he is—he read all the medical literature on the subject and found frequently reported cases of people suffering nerve damage, skin burns, and even frostbite from aggressive icing. What was happening here? Freezing, not healing.

He also realized that freezing could make injuries like his worse and actually slow recovery; freezing led to razor-sharp ice crystal forming in muscles and tendons, injuring cell membranes, and triggering or prolonging inflammation.

Cold was great for the pain and inflammation, but freezing was definitely not. He knew there had to be a better way.

What he was looking for didn’t exist. Not yet.

A Revolution in Cold Compression Therapy

With a design idea in his hand, our founder cleared his kitchen counters and gathered the family together to start building a prototype of a new generation cold therapy product that would get it just right. There was science to be done, and everyone was recruited to help.

What started as a spontaneous kitchen experiment led to a two year research project studying cold compression and building prototypes that involved collaborating with several materials scientists and designers and scrapping many failed ideas.

Eventually, it was decided to base the design around the concept of thermal conductivity—the property that tells how fast a material conducts heat—to deliver deep tissue cooling without freezing or ice injury.

Over hundreds of cycles of experimentation, the team developed the Ice Pillow—a fabric-like composite of multiple conducting and insulating layers in just the right combination. The new composite material slowed the icing experience down and made it comfortable and positive, rather than painful and negative. The best part? The risk of ice crystal formation in and around injured cells was dramatically reduced, allowing for the safe use of cold therapy to support far more efficient healing.

The result: the tried and tested übertherm line of cold compression pain relief products.

Since launching in 2017, we’ve received hundreds of emails and calls about how life-changing our technology is, and we couldn’t be more proud of the results. Sometimes bad things really do lead to good.

Get in touch with übertherm today or browse our exceptional cold therapy products.

With a design idea in his hand he cleared the kitchen counters and gathered the family together to start building a prototype of a new generation cold therapy that would get it just right. There was science to be done and everyone was recruited to help.

What was a spontaneous kitchen experiment led to a two year research project involving materials scientists, designers, and many failed ideas. Eventually, it was decided to base the design around the concept of thermal conductivity – the property that tells how fast a material conducts heat – to deliver deep tissue cooling without freezing and ice injury.

Over hundreds of cycles of experimentation the team developed the Ice Pillow – a fabric-like composite of multiple conducting and insulating layers in just the right combination. The new composite material slowed the icing experience down and made it comfortable and positive rather than painful and negative. The best part, the risk of ice crystal formation in and around injured cells was dramatically reduced, allowing for the safe use of cold therapy and far more efficient healing. The result: the übertherm line of cold compression pain relief products.

Since launching in 2017 we’ve received hundreds of emails and calls about how life changing our technology is, and we couldn’t be more proud of the results. Sometimes bad things really do lead to good.