Kidney stones are really uncomfortable. The faster you rid of them the better. And sometimes, it requires no medical intervention: Two U.S. doctors found another – rather unusual – method.
Not necessarily spectacular, but nice and bumpy – the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in Disney World proved to be extremely effective against kidney stones
The idea did not come originally from him, and urologist David wartinger open. A Patient of him had come: “He told me that he was driving in Disney World roller coaster, and a few minutes after the end of the journey he has excreted a kidney stone.” Obviously, the Gewackele and Gerüttele has losgeschüttelt on the web, the deposition in the kidney of the man. He had the stone, then pees.
However, This Patient a total of three kidney stones, had David wartinger told. So the man got hired again on the same roller-coaster, and – believe it or not! – after the second journey the second stone came to the fore. After the third ride his kidney was completely free.
Most of the Doctors would have taken a history, only with a grin to the knowledge of, at dinner, her family told and then forgotten again. Not so David Wartinger, and Marc Mitchell. The two US-Americans wanted to know whether a roller coaster can actually dissolve kidney stones – and looked into the question scientifically.
It must be the right roller coaster
The two Doctors created a model of the kidney of the patient from silicone, clogged with kidney stone-like Crumbs and filled them with urine. Then they went with your model roller coaster in Disney World in Orlando. “The first ten trips have been fun,” says Wartinger and laughs. “The next 20 felt more like we were in a car accident.” Overall, the two Doctors completed trips with your model 360 roller coaster – if that is not a researcher!
David Wartinger has significantly fun, to tell the story. He got for his research on Thursday (13.09.2018) the Ig-Nobel prize for medicine, a fun prize, awarded to the research findings, the laughing one “in the first place and then think.” On Saturday Wartinger presented the results of his research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit) in the US Cambridge. And revealed that, Yes, roller coasters can really help against kidney stones.
This model of a kidney with renal stones wartinger took on several wild rides
However, It must be the right track. Like the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in Disney World. “On the roller coaster scale, it gets just 3 points out of 5, so it is not really exciting,” he says. But it often goes up and down, wobbles a lot to the left and to the right, and that is what counts. “It must be pretty bumpy,” says Wartinger in the DW-Interview. In the Tower of Terror and other rides in Disney World, however, “has moved nothing at all”.
Wartinger has another tip for all of the kidney stone Afflicted: “The further back in the roller coaster you sit, the more effective against kidney stones.” So it pays well to wait a little longer to the right place.
Great plans failed
A man from the audience asks at the award ceremony, whether it is rides, roller coaster, soon on prescription. David Wartinger regrets, however, that the costs of carrying no insurance.
Meanwhile, David wartinger is retired – “but this has nothing to do with this trial”, he assured the audience. Still, he regrets, obviously, that he is not able to provide a clinical study on the legs. It failed on the Non-consent of the amusement parks. “I contacted all sorts of amusement parks, but they all have very rejected-friendly,” says Wartinger of the DW. No Park wanted to the device, the researchers with your ultrasound and your volunteers in the Park.
So it must try out every kidney stone patient for yourself, whether a roller-coaster ride helps him, or two, or three. “If I had a kidney stone, I’d at least try,” says Wartinger in the DW-Interview. Small kidney stones can be relatively easily eliminated. You are bigger, you need to be endoscopically and removed smashed.
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