Researchers have discovered an unconventional means of easing painful kidney stones. Doctors believe that riding a medium intensity roller coaster could help with the pain of passing kidney stones.

According to Live Science, doctors have hailed the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad roller coaster ride at Disney World as being effective in the treatment of kidney stones.

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Kidney stones are small masses that build up in the kidney. The stones vary in size and most often require no treatment as they can be passed out from the body. However, the ensuing process is what is painful. The stones have to travel from the kidney to the bladder and exit from the urethra when the person passes urine.

According to the authors of the recent study, many patients have reported passing kidney stones while on the Disney World roller coaster. The findings were documented in the journal of American Osteopathic Association.

In one documented instance in the journal, a man claimed to have told the doctors that he passed a kidney stone after three rides on the roller coaster.

The researchers created a model 3D kidney stone and placed urine and real kidney stones in the model kidney. The stones varied from 4 cubic millimeters to 64 cubic millimeters. They concealed the model in a backpack to carry the model on the ride.

The scientists took the model kidney on the roller coaster ride for 20 rounds. They placed the kidney stones in different parts of the kidney model. Each stone was placed in every location of the kidney for at least one ride.

The scientists noted that the seat allocation on the ride was not an aspect they could control. According to the journal, researchers who sat in the front of the roller coaster, with the 3D model, passed stones only 17 percent of the time. However, the initial findings support the claims that a ride on a moderately fast roller coaster could benefit some patients with small kidney stones.

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