Did anyone have to undress to underwear for sports physicals during late 1990s?

Did anyone have to undress to boxers , or bra/ underwear with no gown at sports physicals in the late 1990’s? I was told this was realitively common. Is this true ?

Maybe for some people but not for me. Late 90s I was in middle school. I was a freshman in high school in 2000. When I went to the Dr. for my physicals for tennis, they never really had me remove any clothes. Often, the Dr would have me lay on my back to check my abdomen and then just reach down my pants (after he told me he was gonna check) and have me cough. It was super quick.

I was in college by the late 90s, but I can at least confirm it in the early 90s.

I'd just take my sports physical paperwork to my annual wellness exam so for me they were one and the same, but I would be in my bra/underwear for that appointment, and that exam was with my normal GP. Not if I went for just a sports physical how it would have gone.

I undressed to my underwear for one sports physical in either 94 or 95. It was at a local doctor’s office for a sports physical for high school and not from my pediatrician. I was brought back into an exam room and asked to undress to my underwear one. I had no idea who would be examining me and it was a female nurse practitioner. While lying down she pulled my underwear up and quickly felt my testicles and pressed down there. It was extremely quick and my underwear wasn’t ever pulled down completely exposing my genitals.

was a freshman in high school in 2000. When I went to the Dr. for my physicals for tennis, they never really had me remove any clothes. Often, the Dr would have me lay on my back to check my abdomen and then just reach down my pants (after he told me he was gonna check) and have me cough. It was super quick.

It’s not a real exam unless the pants come down for the examiner to get a look at the genitalia, especially the penis.

I was born in 1994 and all of my annual physicals growing up were done in my underwear.

The nurse would take my vitals and then tell me to take everything off but my underwear and that the doctor would be right in.

For most of the time I saw my pediatrician, I wore tighty whities until I switched to boxer briefs in high school.

All sports physicals were the same at our high school in the early 1970's.

The entire team stripped to underwear and stood in a row. The doc went down the row and listened to each kids heartbeat then went back up the row with the same command " drop your shorts, turn your head to the side and cough".

He performed 60 hernia exams on the football team with no gloves! Glad he didn't need to check our prostates, lol

Yes. Report to the school nurse's office with other team members. Go into a large room with chairs and undress to one's briefs or underpants. The nurse would stand at an adjacent door and weigh you individually and record one's blood pressure before sending you into the room with the doctor. He was an older man; very business like and immediately listen to lungs and hear then order you to remove your briefs and stand facing him. He examined my penis, then testicles; next was the hernia check and lastly, he had me bend over and inspected my anus.

Sports physicals were done in groups. Strip down to your undies, eighty whites for me standing in line until your turn to step behind the screen. Doc gave your body a look over, take vitles, check your heart and lungs with a stethoscope. Them the fun began he lowered your undies checking your penis and sac

Yes in the 1990s I had sports physicals in Scotland where we had to strip down as a group in the changing room to our boxers and walk down a short corridor to the gym. We were examined going from station to station and went behind a screen individually for the hernia and genital exam.

I had an annual physical all through my teen years at my regular doctor. The nurse would always take me back to a room get my vitals and tell me to take off everything but my underwear before leaving. By the end of the exam they came off and I was completely naked when the exam was over.

Usually my sports physicals were done at my regular check ups. For as long as I can remember until I was 14/15 every physical I had I was brought back, gave a urine sample, weighed then told to undress down to my underwear. I would go through the whole physical in my underwear until it came time for the genital and hernia exam where the provider would have me stand up and lower my underwear to my knees and do the exam then tell me I could pull them back up. Usually right before the genital exam she would have me bend over to check my spine. She always slid my underwear partially down my butt when she had me bend over.

Prior to the 1990's yes, I did strip to my underwear and had a seat on the exam table. I graduated undergrad in 1991 and only had exams if I needed them for work. After 2000, I had a period of doctor visits where I would not even take my shirt off. About 2010 and beyond, I had "mature" docs who had me strip to my underwear like before. Today, I still strip to my underwear for my yearly exam.

I believe that was pretty standard here in the US, not really sure about group physicals sponsored by the schools.

Yes. Underwear was the only option for boys and girls. Gowns did not exist at my pediatrician’s office

I believe that was pretty standard here in the US, not really sure about group physicals sponsored by the schools.

My school sports physicals were earlier than the 1990s, they were in the 1980s, but we wore either just underwear or else just a towel.

This was definitely a real thing for me growing up in the US. I stripped to just my underwear with no gown from childhood all the way through college, and all of my male friends did too.

From what limited information I could gather at the time, gowns *were* common for girls, but not really given to guys. The few girls who I was able to discuss this with always got gowns and kept their panties on underneath. Some of the girls kept their bras on, but others had to take them off.

Same for me at school exams and university or superior schools exams in the 60's in France , thre was never gowns, complete nudity was the rule for most of the exams at least for boys ( I heard later that girls could keep their bras and panties, it seemed that a double standard towards modesty was applied during many years )

My schools didn't do sports physicals, at least in the 1990s. You had medical forms you would bring to your regular doctor but they didn’t seem particularly thorough. My pediatrician had me remove my bra and wear a gown; most years I just folded the top down for a breast exam and then the doctor would press my abdomen through the gown. One year the pediatrician told me to lift my hips and then pulled the gown up and my panties down; she had me spread my legs but only did a visual inspection.

Yes, sports physicals were done in my underwear.

"PtArtie "

you were lucky to be allowed to keep your underwear at sports physicals , in my time it was more often complete nudity

I went to a private school in England in the 1990s. They were called "school medicals" rather than "sports physicals" but it was the same idea and yes we had to undress to underwear for most of the examination and take underwear off for part of the examination.

There were no medicals needed to play sports when I was at school, and in the medical that was near the end of my last year at school there was no undressing needed at all really. I am a bit surprised too about two male members saying in their posts that they had medicals and needed to take their underwear down for genital exams, maybe it was different in Scotland and London.

We did not endure any kind of physical exam or medical interference to play sport, we just played sport. No one died, no one was stopped by their parents in playing sport, we played sport at the break times and after school. I guess it’s just how the authorities could not wait to get their hands inside the underwear of children. Then all the problems started.

There were no medicals needed to play sports when I was at school, and in the medical that was near the end of my last year at school there was no undressing needed at all really. I am a bit surprised too about two male members saying in their posts that they had medicals and needed to take their underwear down for genital exams, maybe it was different in Scotland and London.

I agree. I started school in London the late 1980s and left in 2000, and in that time only had two interactions with a doctor in school. The first was shortly after starting school, where I was examined (though not, as far as I can remember, in the same level of detail as the two other posters suggest) and the other was being given my BCG vaccine in Year 8.

It’s possible that the situation was different in Scotland and in the private sector, but I too have a degree of scepticism.

I had yearly physicals starting in middle school and high school which was the better part of the 90’s. My doctor did a physical period, didn’t matter if it was for sports, summer camp, or routine, they were all done the same. Once the vitals were taken by the nurse her parting instructions were to undress to my underwear. So yes I was just in my underwear for most of it, which was colored briefs. The last part of the physical I had to take them off for the genital exam and then it was over and I could get dressed

Absolutely. Granted, it was at the pediatrician's office. But it was down to underwear - sometimes offered a gown, other times no gown. And then it was the usual sequence where eventually I end up lying on my back with his hands slipping under the elastic band of my briefs for a "quick peek". I never had to fully remove my underwear though. Most they were ever removed would just be down mid-thigh while lying there, but my pediatrician would do the honors of lowering them.