Going on this ride may 'shake' kidney stones loose, painlessly

A urologist suggests that riding a roller coaster can result in the painless passing of small, and even a few large, kidney stones. Photo: Filepic

What if the excruciating pain associated to kidney stones could be avoided by strapping yourself into a make-believe runaway mine train, throwing your hands in the air and enduring G-forces as high as 2.5 for about three minutes? Would you do it?

Heck yeah, they’d do it.