The latest advance in MyComfort's patented Gel Sleep Systems technology. Lighter in color and weight, but with all the same great characteristics. And in our exciting new products we can bring it to you at lower cost!

What is OrthoGel?

Patented Original Blue Gel is the world’s most ADVANCED cushioning technology, and OrthoGel is the latest variation. Lighter in both color and weight, the patented foamed gel in OrthoGel has the same comforting, weight-supporting give and feel as other Original Blue Gel applications. When we combine it with our other advanced technologies . . . well, the result is just heavenly!

Invented in the USA in 1995, OrthoGel™ and its predecessors have been used for years in therapeutic care of advanced critical care hospital patients. It is used in the best mattresses and pillows of Europe and Japan, in JanSport's high-end backpack straps, in Dr. Scholl’s Massaging Gel Insoles, and a host of other high-tech cushioning products like our amazing pillows and cushions. Nothing cushions like OrthoGel™ because the further you push into other cushions, the HARDER they push back. Ortho-Gel got its name because it ‘knows’ where to stand firm and where to give way. It's a technological marvel that you'll need to try to appreciate.

OrthoGel™ is everything you’ve been searching for as you’ve tried bed after bed, and everything the rest of the sleep product industry has been trying to figure out for years. Why? Because OrthoGel™ achieves what every other bed technology misses: all three of the crucial elements of sleep wellness: pressure relief, spinal alignment, and back support. OrthoGel™ gives you all three. This high tech solution lets your hips and shoulders sink into the gel with almost no pressure pushing back, and at the same time it reaches up and reinforces the recessed areas of your body. You're cradled, supported, and aligned.

Why OrthoGel works better than other technologies:

All cushioning technologies follow the same basic laws of pressure. The more the protruding parts of your body (hips, shoulders) push against the sleep surface, the more other sleep surfaces push back. So your hips and shoulders (which curve out) get painful pressure, but your back (which curves in) doesn’t get enough support. So it sags down until it meets the mattress surface. Ouch! Whether you’re sleeping on air, water, springs, foam, or even NASA's memory foam, these pressure points mean blood flow is cut off, causing you to toss and turn in your sleep. That means you can't sleep as deeply or wake as rested as you will on OrthoGel™.

The 'holy grail' for generations of mattress experts has been to find a reliable bed technology that could reverse this unpleasant pressure scenario, providing cradling support for the spine while greatly reducing pressure on the hips and shoulders. In medical cushioning, this is called “pressure equalization”.

When OrthoGel™ and its predecessors first provided real pressure equalization the medical community embraced it as the technological miracle that it is: a much-needed therapeutic option for burn victims, coma patients, and geriatric patients - anyone bed-ridden for long periods of time, making them prone to problems such as bed sores and blood clots.

The invention of OrthoGel:

In 1995, a team of U.S. inventors created Original Blue Gel®, a predecessor of OrthoGel™, and immediately applied it to the much-needed medical benefits. Since then they have worked non-stop to bring the same pressure relief, spinal alignment, and back support to the average sleeper. And they've done it! Not only is it the most comfortable, but it's also one of the longest lasting sleep surfaces (see our 20-year warranty), it is completely non-toxic, natural, breathable, and temperature-neutral. Unlike some other sleep technologies OrthoGel™ won’t heat you up while you sleep, won’t change firmness when the temperature changes, and there is virtually no motion transfer.

How it works:

OrthoGel™ is made from hundreds of hollow hexagonal columns of foamed Gelastic, a patented ultra-soft, ultra-strong, solid rubber-like material. (Original Blue Gel® is a non-foamed predecessor.) These columns when joined together form a honeycomb pattern. Each column wall is shared by adjoining columns which work together to give you the right support and pressure relief.

OrthoGel™ uses an engineered process called column buckling, which means that each column is cleverly engineered to support a precise amount of weight. When the load gets too heavy for that column it gets out of the way; it buckles and does not spring back until the weight has been taken away.

In the parts of your body that curve in (your back and side) there is not enough weight on any one column to cause buckling, so it firmly cradles your back. But on areas that curve (such as your hips and shoulders), the columns give way easily. When one column buckles it redistributes the load to the surrounding columns. If the pressure is still too high, those columns buckle and the load goes to the next wider ring of columns. The pressure hot spots get a reduction in pressure which gives the low pressure areas the additional support they need. Each column is engineered to the human comfort threshold, adjusting itself to your individual needs no matter your weight or body shape.

It’s the experience:

OrthoGel™ offers a unique feel that you have to experience to appreciate. We invite you to come into any of our MyComfort stores and find the OrthoGel™ Sleep System that will work wonders for you just as it has for so many others. If there are no stores in your area, you can still try OrthoGel™ with our no-nonsense comfort guarantee.

Then you too can join so many MyComfort customers who say, “I FEEL GOOD!”. You can find Original Blue Gel® and OrthoGel™ in these MyComfort products:

Original Blue Gel and Ortho-Gel Comfort Overlays
Cushioning products for sleep, seating, and travel

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