Study 02 · Thermotherapy Featured
The question is not how thoroughly inflammation is logged, but how precisely heat is removed: titratable extraction at a target tissue temperature, turning cold therapy from a timed ritual into a measured dose.
Learn — the reframe
Interval icing (20 on / 40 off) largely exists because ice is an uncontrollable, overly-cold source, so clinicians dose-limit by time to avoid cold injury and overshoot.45
A device that removes a known number of watts and holds a target temperature reframes the question from “how long is safe” to “what tissue temperature, for how long, is optimal” — a dose–response no one could measure without both a dial (controlled extraction) and a meter (the calorimeter).23
Some interval rationale is genuinely physiological and persists; the device lets it be tested directly, not assumed away.
Anchor
A comprehensive heat-transfer system for continuous study — a referenced white paper proposing the first empirical cold dose–response curve.
Drafted · referenced · for clinical reviewEngage — Orthopedic Wearables
The published anchor — and the Orthopedic Wearables R&D section content.
A recovery white paper — agreed outline below; full paper not yet written.
Advance
The dose-controlled cold-therapy study → the first empirical cold dose–response curve → improved protocols and orthopedic wearables.
Surgical / recovery white paper
Clinician-governed; Clydesdale recovery unit. Endpoints: pain reduction, swelling and function/ROM, recovery time and return-to-activity, adherence versus standard care.
Draft outline · not yet publishedFull discussion in WP-01 — Dose-Controlled Cold Therapy.