Suffer From Kidney Stones? Riding A Roller Coaster May Help

For people suffering kidney stones, Disney World may indeed be the most magical place on Earth. A study conducted at the Florida theme park found that riding roller coasters may help people pass kidney stones with far less pain and no need for surgery. Researchers at Michigan State University carried out the study by riding the park’s Big Thunder Mountain Railroad coaster with a model of a kidney that contained three stones. According to the results, published in Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, the kidney stones passed nearly 70 percent of the time. “This kind of vibratory bouncing-around activity is known to be helpful among urologists, but it’s never been studied,” Dr. David Wartinger of MSU’s college of osteopathic medicine told CBS News. Wartinger said he came up with the idea for the experiment after a number of patients reported passing the extremely painful deposits ― also called renal calculi ― after returning from trips to amusement parks. “Basically, I had patients telling me that after riding a particular roller coaster at Walt Disney World, they were able to pass their kidney stone,” Wartinger said in a statement. “I even had one patient say he passed three different stones after riding multiple times.” To test his theory, Wartinger made a synthetic 3D model of a hollow kidney. He then filled it with urine and three actual kidney stones of various sizes, all under 4 millimeters. ...
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