Trauma Pads??? What do they do???

Trauma Pads are designed to help reduce the impact to your body.  

Unfortunatly Body Armor does not make us invincible, the impact of a round hitting your plates could break bones and cause internal bleeding just due to the sheer force (or more accuratly, the amount of energy that your plates need to stop). Trauma pads are designed to be another way to help disburse the impact.

Getting hit by a round can still knock you over, it can deform your plate to the point of broken ribs... long story short... it's not fun.

Here's a fun analogy... 
You get puched in the somach... knocks the wind out of you right?  Now, if you place a dense (perhaps Memory Foam) pillow infront of you the punch still lands and it might push you back, but it doesn't have the same impact... TRAUMA PAD... you dissipated the energy of the punch through the density of the pillow.

Trauma pads go in the same compartment as your plates (they belong closest to the body).
What Trauma Pads are not...

• They are not a medical device, while they may absorb blood, they are not designed for this purpose, and they will not create enough pressure under your plate to stop bleeding.
  
• They DO NOT change the protection level of your plates.
  
• They do not protect you from bullets. Trauma Pads have no NIJ rating.
  
• They are not stab protection. Trust me a knife will go right through a soft trauma pad!