Walking examination

Does anyone remember walking around the doctor's office? So the doctor could see that you didn't have any spinal deviations or leg imperfections.

I remember walking back and forth from one end of the room to the other naked. It happened after the scoliosis and hernia exams and sometimes included things like standing on one leg to check balance.

I did this once as part of a sports-related injury when I hurt my knees. (Flat feet suck.) I was dressed, though, in a tee and shorts.

I only remember this happening in play exams, not in a real exam. As one would expect, the playdoc conducted the walking, etc tests while I was nude.

Actually, up until recently, this was a standard part of my physical exams. Depending on the doctor, sometimes nude, sometimes in my briefs or boxer shorts.

The doctor had me walk up and down the room a couple of times in my underwear.

Walking examination is often a part of neurological examinations. In fact, often at neurologist appointments, the doc will get you from the waiting room himself / herself and watch you walk to the examination room. That is the very first part of the neurological exam, walking being a complex neurologiclal activity.

I've also had a walking examination done as part of a general physical exam, and I wrote a blog post about that exam in Zity, which, if you like, can read at the link below. Perhaps oddly, had I followed the medical assistant's instructions to the letter, I would have done it nude. But instead I was in my underpants. This exam was years ago by a doc who was a real throwback. I was in my early 20s at the time. Quite a physical exam.

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YES!!!! I had this at several different doctors when I was a kid but mostly in my teens and it is a big thing to me for some reason I can't understand. I have run into a lot of people who never had it and I have not had it done since my teens. At a couple of doctors, including for my sports physicals, we also had to walk up and down a set of steps.

It was part of the scoliosis exam when our big tall girl was a teenager. (She has scoliosis or she'd be even taller.) Schools screen for spinal curvature and give info to parents on children whose spines curved beyond normal, so we took her to the doctor. She was allowed to wear her underwear during the exam, including the walking part.

It didn't bother her much when she was young, but it's a source of upper back pain sometimes now that she's grown.

Several times. I have residual problems from a knee injury. Doctors/NP often wanted to see how I was walking. Problem got so bad I needed a replacement.

I do remember my school entrance exam in 1994 Germany, although I'm not exactly sure how much of this is false memory by now. I recall being seated with my classmates (both male and female) in my undies for weighing and measuring and then being called to a secluded room with my parents.

There, I had to drop my undies and then walk back and forth on my tiptoes and heels before my foreskin was examined, which was very painful.

Yes. I walked back and forth across the room, first on my toes, then on my heels. Back then the rooms were larger. In some exam rooms I've been in recently, I don't think I'd be able to take more than a couple steps without an object in the way.

Yes, my pediatrician had me do that. First normally, then heel to toe and on my heels and toes. I also had to do the duckwalk sometimes.

I do recall having to walk on toes across the room and then on heels back at early pediatric visits. I remember it also happened prior to some pre employment exams as well. Its been a very long time since I have been asked to do that.

I've only had to do this once, at a pre-employent physical. I was in my underwear and a gown and had to do various exercises & movements (bend at my waist side to side, then forward / backwards, etc). It was very awkward with the gown sliding off my shoulders and opening in the back. Then I had to walk normal, then on my toes, and finally on my heels only. I remember thinking it was very weird. Suddenly she had me stop and stand in the middle of the room as she pulled out a pair of gloves from a drawer. "Ok, almost done. I just need to do the hernia exam. Lower your underwear."

In the 1960's, most every 18 to 24 y/o male in the US received a walking exam during their mandatory pre-induction military exams at a MEPS. This was part of the orthopedic exam and checked for lower limb articulation. Typically just 10 or 20 steps in a group, but anyone observed with poor gait often took a longer "hike" around the examination hall.

The same exam included "Duck Walking" but that is probably a topic for a different different thread.

As a child I recall being asked to walk down a hall and back without shoes. I think it was to evaluate whether I might have been flat footed.

Yes, it was part of my postural check when I was a teen. I was wearing just socks and underwear.

Yes, my pediatrician had me do that. First normally, then heel to toe and on my heels and toes. I also had to do the duckwalk sometimes.

I remember being asked to do similar by a pediatrician when I was living in the US. He also asked me to do star jumps and touch my toes while walking. I have no idea what the purpose was. I think I was 8. I was wearing panties only.

When I went to the doctors, as part of my exam they would get me to walk back and forwards a couple of times across the room in my underpants to check my movement.

Yeah I’ve done this one before. The last time I needed a full medical for something work related was when I was in my early 20s, and I ended up walking across the doctor’s surgery room in a whole load of different ways. The one I remember is when I had to put one foot in front of the other with the toes of the back-foot touching the heel of my front one and try to keep my balance…that took me back to gymnastics at primary school when we had to balance on a beam, which I was hopeless at just like I was hopeless at anything to do with gym back then, but in that medical exam I actually did keep my balance. I was in my underpants at that stage so the doctor could fully see my posture, and I kinda liked it because it was the run-up to the respiratory exam, which is the part I always enjoyed the most. I was kinda like ‘I can do feeling like I’m back in Year 4 gym class just so long as I get that nice Litmann stethoscope used on me in a minute’ (that doctor had what I later found out was a cardiology model and it looked super-cool at the time with it’s thicker chest-piece and fancy looking tubing with the V at the top).

My ortho had me walk across the room with shoes on then shoes off prior to ankle surgery. Lots of awkward walking in PT six weeks after the surgery.

I seem to recall having to do it in my youth, not knowing what they were looking for. Fuzzzy memories, that was a looonnng time ago.

Once only, at school after the genital exam I had to walk forward and back with my hands on my knees. Then I had to stand up straight, let my trousers drop and bend and put them on whilst the doctor looked at my spine.

Yes, I had to do it quite a few times. I was just in my underpants and would have to walk to the examination room door and back, then bend over and touch my toes.

Yes, I had to do this once. It’s to check your gait. My doctor had me walk across the room on my heels and toes.

I had this exam when I was younger at the pediatrician and at the school doc. They wabted to check the posture and I was wearing underpants during this exam.