Men's underwear with fitted frontal pouch and removable ergonomic gel pack for testicular cooling

Abstract

Male infertility due to reduced sperm count has received dramatically increased scientific attention in recent years, particularly the effect of excessive testicular heat on sperm motility. Currently all products designed for testicular cooling are prohibitively cumbersome, or potentially toxic. While ice can be applied directly to the testicles, this invention provides and a convenient and comfortable alternative that does not exist today: underwear specifically designed to be fitted with a freezable gel pack, permitting users to keep moving around. Researchers increasingly believe that this sort of cooling can have a positive effect on sperm health, perhaps providing another alternative to other expensive and invasive fertility treatments.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0001] Male infertility due to reduced sperm count has received dramatically increased scientific attention in recent years, particularly the problem of excessive testicular heat, which is often caused by a varicocele, or enlarged vein, and has been proven to be ameliorated by cooling the testicular region.

[0002] In a study by Mulcahy (1984), fifty men with reduced sperm motility applied ice packs to the scrotum at night, held in place by jockey shorts. After the treatment, both sperm density and sperm motility had at least doubled in 65 percent of the patients.

[0003] Mulcahy J J, ‘Scrotal hypothermia and the infertile man.’Journal of Urology, 132 / 3 (1984), pp. 469-70

[0004] Jung et al (2005) found a significant increase in both sperm concentration and total sperm count as a result of nocturnal scrotal cooling. For twelve weeks, twenty infertile men (with histories of testicular maldescent and oligozoospermia) used a cooling technique every night, and significa...

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