Kidney Stone Treatment & Prevention

Treatment

External shockwave, not invasive surgery.

Kidney stones cause some of the sharpest pain in medicine, and for many people they return again and again. The modern approach treats the stone in front of you with the least invasive tool that works — and then does the harder, more valuable work of preventing the next one.

Where a stone needs to be broken, extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) uses ultrasound-guided shockwaves to fragment it from outside the body — accurate, with minimal discomfort, and no surgical incision. Smaller stones can often be managed medically and passed naturally.

Prevention is the real win.

After a stone, a 24-hour urine study and metabolic work-up reveal why it formed — low urine volume, low citrate, high uric acid, diet. One patient who had passed three stones in two years had his cause identified, followed a targeted plan, and two years later had not had a single recurrence.

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