The Library · Collaborate
For the physicians, athletic trainers, and sleep specialists who govern care. The program is built so the people who designed the cooling — and who hold the clinical judgment — also direct what the science becomes. Your read is what turns measured signal into a better protocol.
The aim is not to defend a device; it is to answer real clinical questions, and to size every claim to what the evidence actually shows.
Most wearables estimate — heart rate, steps, “calories.” Temp°IQ measures the heat actually removed from the body, in watts and kilojoules: a real physical quantity. That measurement is both what makes the device useful and what makes it a research instrument — every session produces real thermal data, so ordinary use compounds into understanding. Throughout, the system is descriptive, not diagnostic: it measures energy and describes patterns, and clinical judgment governs care.
Three research programs
Thermoregulation under heat stress — for people whose regulation is unreliable (MS, dysautonomia, spinal cord injury) and those overloaded by environment and gear. We measure heat removed, the steadiness of cooling demand, perceived temperature vs. tolerance, and HRV — each against the individual’s baseline.
The open question we most want your read on: interval icing — how much is physiology, and how much is an artifact of ice being uncontrollable? We’ve drafted a referenced white paper and a study proposal, and we intend to test the physiological rationales directly, not assume them away.
Concussion Management — an educational hub plus the Concussion Cooling Study (short- and long-term arms); device-agnostic and clinician-governed. Sleep Management applies the same peri-cranial cooling nightly.
How your expertise shapes the program
The goal of the collaboration is to pull signal from noise and turn it into suggested edits to existing protocols. Protocols are living documents with a changelog; each suggested edit carries its rationale, its evidence, and its source, and is adjudicated by its owner before a new version is published. Nothing changes a protocol silently, and a pattern becomes a candidate edit only if it clears a pre-specified bar and corroborates across the device data, your observation, and the literature.
Clinical and safety edits, protocols, biomarker oversight, return-to-play and return-to-activity judgment.
First-line application, comfort, fit, adherence, and symptom course in the real setting.
The sleep arm: endpoints, scoring and interpretation, and the consumer-versus-medical framing.
Device-parameter edits: setpoints, zone geometry, and the calorimeter that turns the above into measured dose.
Governance & ethics
What we’re asking of you
Thermotherapy — which interval-icing rationales are tool-bound vs. physiological, and what tissue-temperature targets to test first.
Concussion — endpoints, acute-biomarker use, and return-to-play governance.
Sleep — consumer-wellness vs. medical (insomnia) framing, and the endpoints that matter.
Heat Safety — the populations and thresholds where measured cooling would most change care.
Nothing here is a treatment claim. It is an invitation to build the evidence together.
The protocol-edit process and evidence bar described here are detailed in the library’s white papers; the supporting literature lives in each program’s reference list — Heat Safety, Thermotherapy, Cranial Cooling. Descriptive, not diagnostic.