DanFoam tested memory foam in football helmets before discovering mattress applications
Bobby Trussell · Tempur-Pedic: Bobby Trussell (2018) · Jul 6, 2020 · at 19:11
Bobby Trussell, founder of Tempur-Pedic, explains how Swedish partners DanFoam discovered the commercial consumer mattress application of viscoelastic foam.
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“They had this squishy, squishy foam with slow comeback, and they had originally been interested in it for football helmets. But they made some three-inch overlays, and they put them in a nursing home in Copenhagen, and they were thinking maybe it would be good for bedsewers. And the reports they got back is that it, yes, indeed, it helped people who had bed sores, and the other thing they heard, though, anecdotally, was, hey, the people who had back pain said it helped their back, and so that's when they said, hey, looks like we got something here.”
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