For some, passing a kidney stone ranks as high on the pain scale as childbirth. But what if there were a way to ride out that process by literally going for a ride? Dr. David Wartinger, a Michigan State University urologist, professor emeritus claims that a trip to Walt Disney World may be just what the doctor ordered. The trick here, apparently, is to ride Big Thunder Mountain. In a pilot study, published in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, Wartinger rode Big Thunder Mountain at Walt Disney World 20 times while wearing a backpack with a synthetic 3D hollow kidney model. The model contained kidney stones measuring 4 millimeters or smaller. He found that sitting in the last car had a 64 percent passage rate versus a 16 percent passage rate in the first few cars. Sometimes folks, truth is stranger than fiction.
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