Roller Coaster Breaks Up Kidney Stones. The goal is to avoid putting patients through medical procedures such as lithotripsy which uses sound waves to break up the stone. Image caption thrills spills and kidney stone removal.
Wartinger said the procedure is usually used in cases where the kidney stone is larger than 5 millimeters. We want to offer people something cheaper than a 5 000 lithotripsy he said a procedure which breaks up large stones using ultrasound shock waves. Lithotripsy which breaks apart kidney stones that are too large to pass is a common treatment for the problem.
Usually they travel out of the body through the urinary tract but sometimes surgery is required to remove them.
Image caption thrills spills and kidney stone removal. Doctors studied the effects of roller coaster rides on kidney stones after a patient reported passing stones on. Riding a roller coaster after having treatments such as lithotripsy a procedure that aims to break up kidney stones into smaller particles using ultrasound shock waves could prevent stones. The roller coaster ride helped jolt some kidney stones out of it.