Take your kidney stone for a ride?

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The scientists who discovered hopping on a rollercoaster ride is an effective way to cure kidney stones were among those recognised at this year’s Ig Nobel awards.

The prize-giving ceremony at Harvard University — organised by the US magazine Annals of Improbable Research — celebrates strange-but-true scientific findings.

The prize for medicine was awarded to US researchers looking at the efficiency of rollercoasters in helping people pass kidney stones more quickly.

Professor David Wartinger, of Michigan State University, began exploring the subject when one of his patients had a kidney stone dislodged by the Thunder Mountain ride at Disney World in Florida.

The medical scientist then built a model of the renal system and tested it out on various rides to prove the theory. He now recommends a “quick and rough” rollercoaster ride to anyone suffering with kidney stones.

“It literally rattles the stone loose,” Professor Wartinger said.

“Anybody who’s trying to generate benefit from our research should be looking for a rollercoaster, which doesn’t have to be fast, but you want a rollercoaster that is quick and rough with a lot of up-and-down and side-to-side motion,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

“In fact, the really fast coasters that go 100mph and drop hundreds of feet don’t really work very well.

“I can’t tell you about a general consensus, but I can tell you that for the last decade that we’ve been aware of this research, we’ve recommended it for our patients with great success.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/scie ... 37681.html

Weird or what? Men are said to be more prone to kidney stones than women so now you know what to do.

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What if you just buy one of those vibrating exercise machines they advertise on TV?

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''The scientists who discovered hopping on a rollercoaster ride is an effective way to cure kidney stones were among those recognised at this year’s Ig Nobel awards.""

So a healthy sex life will help ?

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What if you just buy one of those vibrating exercise machines they advertise on TV?

Unless you have it screwed to your ceiling , probably not

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oh....

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I think it's the stomach rising and plummeting that does it.

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I think it's the stomach rising and plummeting that does it.

so sex would be good , yes ?

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I think it's the stomach rising and plummeting that does it.

so sex would be good , yes ?

Probably more like throwing up lol

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Cheaper to just break them apart with ultrasound, as they normally do.

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I think it's the stomach rising and plummeting that does it.

so sex would be good , yes ?

Probably more like throwing up lol

The thought of having sex has that effect on the Doris lol