How often did all you former student athletes have to undergo a complete physical exam?

In the state of texas, a physical exam was required every other year.

In my state, the requirement for student-athletes is now once every three years. I think it was once a year when I was in school decades ago. I played sports only through 10th grade, and am pretty sure I needed to have sports physicals before grades 7, 8, 9, and 10.

I wonder what it is in my state now. When I was in school, athletes had to have one every year and then all students had to have one, a little more basic, at 6th, 8th, and 10th grades, I think. Also, when I was in school, a private doctor visit could not be substituted for the official one. If you were in sports, you HAD to have the one the school offered.

Once a year was for a complete physical exam. (Wrestling) But at the practice I went to, I was given an examination anyways when I went in for like a skin condition or a cold or injury, and always ended up in my birthday suit.

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yes of course when you had several exams the same year to play sports, one for each sport, I presume that it was more for a liability issue than to check again your good health and fitness for a sport.

In France too, in the 60's at high school we might have a physical exam which was mandatory to play in a school team, and if we subscribed to play sport outside of school in an other organisation or a club and also if we wanted to go to a summer camp, an other mandatory physical exam very thorough generally was required, it was often an assembly line exam without much privacy, a little like for draftees, not very pleasant but we were not allowed to go to see a private doctor, we might report to the summon for a group examination at the medical center chosed by the club or organisation or at a community one for summer camps.

Same to play in a school team, a mandatory physical exam was required for each sport and we might go to the nurse's office of the school to be examined by the school lady doctor and the school nurse, sometimes it could be a specialised doctor for one sport who came at school just for our exam and it could be performed partly at the nurse's offices and partly in the school gym.

My junior high and high school required an annual sports physical for athletes on a school team.

I had one every year I played before the season so that was two a year as I played girls basketball and golf.

Once a year is what I remember.

Until College i Had to Go every six months but mainly because i was a late bloomer. My colleagues Just went there every year.

Just once a year. It was a pretty basic physical, they grabbed your balls and made you cough, and that was it

Once a year around my birthday...always for school and sports...dreaded it because of my boxers being pulled down and self conscious about my development and the awkward comments

I recall going to do physicals before certain grades, like kindergarten, 2nd grades, 5th grade,.... These were usually at the school, group style. I think it was the summer before 8th grade, my dad had to bring me. I was told to go into one of the classrooms, remove my clothes and walk back out into the hallway wearing just my underwear and stand with my dad. There were maybe six other guys in line. I had to go into one room for weight and height, then to another station for ENT, ... At some point I recall my dad telling me to follow him. Were skipped some stations and went to go see the doctor. Were were out of there pretty fast. He didn't want to wait and take all day.

We had a more thorough examination before playing any sports, at the doctors office. Those visits usually had a hernia examination included. And if we got hurt enough to be removed from the field, we had another in office examination before we were allowed go play again.

I am pretty certain that the athletes had to have one full physical at the start of the year/season, and maybe a quick follow up before the season if they played in multiple sports.

In the early 80s my high school would sent out the 'daily bulletin' every day at about 10 o'clock. It was a mimeographed list of absences, dismissals, and announcements for the day and week, and was hand delivered to each classroom by trusted students who had a study hall that period. Some of the nicer teachers would let the students check the bulletin for announcements, etc. There were days that the school was running physical exams in the nurse's office for students or sometimes the small gym for sports. They would have lists of students who were scheduled at certain times, and this was on the bulletin along the lines of: "the following boys should report to the small gym for their physical exam at the time indicated" and then a group of five or six guys at 9:00, 9:30, etc. The girls were on a separate day, of course, and probably in the nurse's office. The small gym was through the boy's locker room opposite from the gym and was not really accessible any other way from what I remember. I never had to have a physical at school, but used to wonder what actually happened. I knew the guys who were listed, but would never ask as at the time it would have been perceived as being pervy.

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Question for Badgy1. you said "They were always right after school and they would call us into the nurses office 10 at a time and go through the line in alphabetical order." Can you tell us all about how those exam were done..

Once a year was for a complete physical exam

My mother is a doctor. She filled out all the forms some years Pediatrician filled out the forms after usual physical.

More or less, once a year. Either every time there was competition or afterwards to make sure everything was okay.

My experiences were not the norm, the doctor I had later became quite infamous for molesting the male athletes. I think at the time I was in college he was testing things out so to speak. After the first exam, which was about as complete as it gets, things progressed pretty rapidly. A couple of visits for a not too serious injury turned into complete physical exams and if you went in for a sinus infection you didn't walk out without being put through a complete physical. The 2nd year and onward was actually crazier than my first year with this guy. The wild thing was that everyone knew, at least in general, what he was doing yet he got away with it for many years. As difficult as those exams were it certainly fostered my medical interests so I guess I got a good bit of value from those experiences later down the road

For those who did non school sponsored sports, not at all. We got our own page in the yearbook though, so we did get a bit of a nod from the school.

I played sports and we never had to have a different exam for it. We just had to submit some letter from the pediatrician saying we were able to play. But it was the same physical not a new appointment

Once a sports season.

Once a year before the first sports season. My school would host a physical night where you could go get your form filled out. It was a very basic exam - always fully clothed. I heard that most docs also would defer the GU exam for guys at those nights.