About this trial
To evaluate the effectiveness of this homework on stone clearance rates after retrograde intrarenal surgery (RIRS) by instructing the patient in the home environment and suggesting percussion and movement/position changes to assist in spontaneous stone passage.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Patients with an indication for RIRC
Disqualifiers
Patients with anatomic abnormalities such as horseshoe kidney, fragments in the calyx diverticulum, infundibular stenosis, pelvi-ureteral junction obstruction or ureteral stenosis.
Patients with morbid obesity, uncontrolled hypertension, previous cerebrovascular accident, skeletal deformity such as significant coronary artery disease or symptomatic gastro-esophageal reflux disease.
Patients with lumbar disc herniation who have undergone spinal surgery and are unable to undergo behavioral therapy.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Percussion and position change in retrograde intrarenal surgery