Did your pediatrician ever make you do exercises

Naked would have been better for observing muscles and such. Just sayin.

Growing up I was told to walk one foot in front of the other, to squat, and to do jumping jacks briefly. Nothing too stressflil, however, my genitals slipped out of my boxers while squatting once.

I don't remember to have been instructed to do some orthopaedic exercices at a private doctor's office, but it was part of the mandatory school physical examinations for cheking the balance and the spine and flexibility, such as to walk on toes and heels of feet or do a duck walk or squat everal times, or lift legs one after one and same for arms.. and of course to bend over and touch ankles and more seldomly to run on a spot before a check of the heart rate.

It could be done in briefs only or at high school stark naked.

It was the same as a draftee at the physical exams for military service at a pre-induction center, we had a lot of orthopaedic exercices at a station and that time we were all naked in a group to do the exercices in front of a doctor and a few non commissionners officers. We were told before that the nudity was required to observe better the muscles… which was certainly true.

I think that it was right, such exercices might be done stark naked for a serious exam.

I'm not sure I'd consider them exercises, but I always had to (try to) touch my toes while standing for a scoliosis check. Usually after that I'd be asked to walk back and forth across the room a couple times. When I was really little, my doctor would make a show of dropping his pen after this and ask me to pick it up. I can remember finding it funny and making me laugh.

As an older kid, I would be asked to stand on each leg to check my balance both with my eyes open and closed. Open was easy, but once I closed my eyes I'd quickly lose my balance.

When I was 14, my doctor was trying to make conversation and my mother mentioned me playing soccer. My doctor asked me if I could run fast and I told him I could because of how I pushed off the ground. He asked me to stand in front of him and show him. It was a bit difficult in the tiny room, but I managed to awkwardly run in place, kicking off of the carpet. My doctor got the general idea of how I ran and told me that running that way, while definitely quick, wasn't good for my joints. I became more conscious of how I ran after that.

I was given back exercises to do by an orthopedic when I was a teen and had some issues due to a minor case of scoliosis. As far as the pediatrician… the closest thing I recall was when I'd lie on the table and he'd take my base of my foot in his hand while my knee was pulled up to my chest and tell me to push forward. That and the bending over check for scoliosis that has already been mentioned here.