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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I remember all of my sports physicals were always done in only underwear. I remember lying back on the exam table and the doctor would palpate my stomach and feel the lymph nodes in my groin. I was always in white briefs. Then he would have me get off the table and lower my briefs to my knees and feel my testicles and have me turn my head and cough. I'm circumcised so he never examined my penis specifically.

"Lucas Mercer "

can you give up a little more details about your physicals ?

were you alone undressed or in group ? how much ?

who was present ?

how long did it lasted ?

was it the same every year ?

wws it a different exam when a doctor spread yur butt ?

Yes, sports physicals were in underwear only

In middle school I wanted to play on the school 8th grade basketball team and as a convenience, the school had a doctor do the pre-participation physicals for student athletes. It was after school before a practice in the boys locker room with a section of the showers set up with an exam table and partition. It was also one of the first times I felt weird knowing there was as the female doctor and the school nurse in the locker room while some of us got changed for into our uniforms for either practice in the gym or waiting for the physical. You waited in line for the makeshift exam room in the showers where the female doctor and the school nurse was there assisting with scribing exam forms and traffic control. When it was my turn walking into the shower/exam room, they instructed me to undress to my underwear. In addition to the usual listening to hearts/lungs and lying down for the abdomen exam there was the additional observed movements like squats and resistance stretches. After the abdomen exam, the doctor instructed me to bring down my underwear where she would then check and notate whether my penis was circumsized, and did a cursory testicle check and hernia exam. My back was facing the nurse who I knew as the aunt of my childhood friend and I thought I would be spared exposing myself to her only for my buns but then I was instructed to turn around and bend over for a scoloiosis check and quick cheeks spread for hemmorhoids. I thought she wouldn't looking at me and just filling out the form, but her slight smile while I glanced at her direction before bending over added to the embarrassment.

Up to that point it felt like a more involved physical exam at the doctor's, perhaps made moreso by the non-clinical environment.

The topic is "Did anyone have to undress to underwear for sports physicals during late 1990s?" . If you are older than 40 or so you are not who this topic is for. If you do not see your post, now you know where and why it is missing. Let the younger members give their experiences. Things were different back in the olden days. 😉

But 1996 is in the MIDDLE nineties @trippycum not the LATE nineties. The member who started the topic did not ask for posts talking about things earlier than the late nineties.

@MissStress

My post was removed. I'm 47. I did have to undress down to my underwear for sports physicals in the late 90's. I was 17 when the formative experience i shared occurred and it was important for me to share it. The year was 1996.

I did quick math figuring the age of a person being examined in the late 90's. 40+ fell in that range of being in school and getting a physical in the time frame.

The doctor filled out my sports physical forms at the annual, so they were always in underwear.

I did have to get a quick one time for a basketball camp at an urgent care type place, they had me take my shirt off but nothing else, it wasn't a real thorough one just enough to get the form signed, but that's only time I went to one outside of my normal doctors and still had the annual that year.

Yes - usually would have to strip to my briefs at the start of the exam