Ladies, is there much difference being examined on a traditional exam table and the newer exam chairs?

In being examined on a traditional examination table/couch and being in one of the newer model gynecological examination chairs? Do you feel any more or less exposed/vulnerable in one over the other? Your thoughts please.

I've edited the thread title so that it is descriptive. Thread titles shouldn't ask only half a question and force members to open the thread to discover what is actually being asked.

Let's not have enigmatic titles please. I often just delete threads of that nature.

Thank you Dr.Z. Understood.

I think I would call it an exam chair that I have had my checkups on, but I think on an exam table you are lying a bit more flat and I think I would not like that as much because lying too flat would make it harder for me to see what he was doing. I do not think that lying flatter makes a lot of difference about how exposed it makes you but I think being in an exam chair feels more exposing to me because I am in leg supports and it is just more open. I think it feels a bit less exposing if I have been only lying down in the frog-leg position and not in leg supports.

And I believe the "frog-leg position" you mention is only in England, or British countries. I don't believe they are often used in the US.

I haven't yet had the experience of the newer exam chairs. I probably won't unless I start having medical problems in that area.

My doctor has me lie down on the table & put my legs in the frog leg position when she examines me. She never uses the stirrups for whatever reason

Here in the UK, I have only ever had to put my legs in the frog-leg position. When I lived abroad, I had to put my legs in knee rests or foot stirrups. I found the knee rests more exposing, it's not as easy to close your legs. I haven't tried the newer exam chairs, I guess the NHS can't afford them at the moment!

I have not seen a exam chair only in a urogynecologist office! They have a big recliner but it has stirrups and they seem farther apart than in a gyn’s office! They use these to do cystoscope’s in! Still hanging off the chair!

Until recently, I’d only had exams on a table with stirrups at the end.

However, my last gynecologist appointment was with a new doctor. He used a fancier, more advanced chair. It was much more chair like, but the seat didn’t extend all the way underneath me. It supported about half of my bottom.

There were also footrests that, when the chair was tilted back, served like stirrups.

It was very interesting and extremely intimidating at first. I was very nervous, but in the end, felt pretty safe.

Until recently, I’d only had exams on a table with stirrups at the end.....

@hawky , I assume you had a gynaecological visit most recently.

@clyso Fairly recently, around July 2022.

I have only ever seen exam tables used I don’t know if i would enjoy giving a exam on a chair compared to a traditional table anyway.

I had several gyn chairs in my office. Midmark 415s and 413s. Patient acceptance was high. When tilted back the patient was in the correct position for a gyn exam. No more " move down please"

I had several gyn chairs in my office. Midmark 415s and 413s. Patient acceptance was high. When tilted back the patient was in the correct position for a gyn exam. No more " move down please"

I sat on exam chair last time and it was phenomenal. The dr pressed a button and the chair moved into the exam position. It was very comfortable and felt a lot less awkward than having to move down a flat table and open my legs. It’s a lot less intimidating.

I have also had the experience of being examined gynecologically on a couch lying flat on my back. I was not placed in stirrups as is apparently mandatory in the USA, the couch had simple knee rests. They were made of metal, unpadded and initially cold. Uncomfortable. I also couldn't see what the doctor was doing, I had to stare at the ceiling the whole time. I much prefer the modern examination chairs that you sit on and that have calf rests. My doctor's chair has an electronic memory for the sitting position. Once this has been set and saved for a patient, the chair automatically moves to this position after sitting down when the doctor enters the patient's name into the practice's computer system. I only know about the "frog leg position" from hearsay that gynecologists like to use it on young girls to save them "the chair".