Roller Coaster For Kidney Stones. The us researchers. When the model was carried in the front seating of the roller coaster fewer kidney stones were passed 16 7 than when sat in the rear seating 63 9.
When the model was carried in the front seating of the roller coaster fewer kidney stones were passed 16 7 than when sat in the rear seating 63 9. This is the conclusion of research that has won this year s ig nobel prize for medicine. Sixty roller coaster rides were taken and the effect on the kidney stones analysed.
A team of researchers rode a roller coaster more times than they probably care to remember just to figure out why roller coasters trigger the passage of small kidney stones.
This is the conclusion of research that has won this year s ig nobel prize for medicine. Doctors may soon be prescribing trips to disney world after researchers discovered that taking a ride on one of its most iconic roller coasters can help kidney stones pass through the urinary. The big thunder mountain railroad roller coaster at disneyland in anaheim calif. David wartinger a urologist from michigan used a 3 d printed silicone model of a kidney and then filled it with kidney stones in three different sizes with approximate diameters of one to two millimeters two to three millimeters and four millimeters.