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For several decades now, doctors have utilized a non-surgical technique called extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) to break up kidney stones so they can be passed with the urine.

We don’t think about sound and surgical tools as shock waves.” Krueger said shock waves have been used in medicine for a long time, including in lithotripsy for kidney stones since the 1980s.