You’ll receive 5 extra ice packs for your Icekap® Cool Cap — the exact same packs that ship with the original product. Each one has a number that matches a pocket inside your Cool Cap, so you’ll know exactly where each one belongs.

You can switch your packs when frozen. Even when very cold, these gel packs stay malleable, and the pockets of your cool cap are elastic, so you can swap your packs at any temperature.

You can use these gel packs for anything you’d use a normal ice pack for — but if you want to relieve headaches with them, you’ll want a Cool Cap to put them in!

Medical-grade gel packs are manufactured to the highest standards, and are designed to stay cold for much longer than a conventional ice pack — remaining below room temperature for 2-3 hours, on average, compared to less than 30 minutes for consumer-grade packs.. Medical-grade packs are also much more durable, and stay soft and malleable when cold — so they can perfectly conform to your head or body.

If you start from room temperature, your packs should be cool enough to use after about 4 hours in the freezer. But because they’re medical-grade packs, they’ll continue to get colder for up to 24 hours — at which point they’ll be colder and last longer than your average ice pack.

If you prefer, you can buy a second set of gel packs so you always have some in the freezer even when you're wearing your Icekap Cool Cap.

We designed the Cool Cap to deliver cold therapy that’s:

1. Longer-lasting, with medical-grade gel packs that stay cold for much longer than your average ice pack or cooling cap.
2. Targeted to problem areas, with 5 cooling zones, placed exactly where they need to be to deliver maximum relief.
   
3. Combined with compression, which also helps with headache relief. Your Cool Cap comes with adjustable straps so you can decide the exact level of tightness that works best for you..

Cold temperatures have been used for centuries to soothe headache, inflammation, and general pain. Blood vessels constrict when they’re exposed to cold, which can help reduce the transmission of pain signals.

Keep your Cool Cap in the freezer (in a freezer bag, if you have one), and whenever you need relief, just take it out and put it on your head. Take a moment to tighten the straps to your desired level of compression, and then you’ll feel the relief begin to wash over you.

Lots of our customers report using Icekap daily, and often multiple times a day. Try starting with a 30 minute session to see how your body responds to it, and then increase the time as you become more comfortable with the therapy.

Lots of our customers report using Icekap daily, and often multiple times a day. Try starting with a 30 minute session to see how your body responds to it, and then increase the time as you become more comfortable with the therapy.

You certainly can! Some people find relief from applying warm compresses to their head, and you can do that with your Cool Cap. Just take the gel packs out of the cap and microwave them in 10-second increments, or submerge them in warm water. But be careful, as the packs can get very hot if overheated.

Your Cool Cap has 5 pockets for gel packs: 1 across the forehead, 2 on the temples, 1 across the back of the neck, 1 on the top frontal region of your head. We designed it this way because these are the most common regions that headache sufferers experience pain.

If you’re only looking to soothe specific regions, just remove the packs from the pockets where you don’t want the cold temperatures.

You should definitely consult with your doctor first if you believe you have a head injury. But head cooling has been shown in studies to reduce inflammation and support recovery*, so Icekap is definitely something that could help.

*Harris B, Andrews PJD, Murray GD, et al. Systematic review of head cooling in adults after traumatic brain injury and stroke. 2012. In: NIHR

Health Technology Assessment programme: Executive Summaries. Southampton (UK): NIHR Journals Library; 2003-.