Touching Toes at Physical

A few questions about having your doc ask you to touch your toes at a physical:

1. Do you still do this at physical exams? If so, every time? if not, at what age did they stop asking you to do that?

2. If you aren't in an exam gown for the physical, does the doc have you take off your shirt when asking you to touch your toes? If you are in an exam gown, does your doc have you take it off, or turn it around (if it opens in the front?

3. Does your doc ask you to "touch toes" or "hang forward at the waist?"

4. Does your doc ever ask you to bend as far as you can?

I recently had an exam at age 50 and the only bending over I did was when she had me lean over the table for the DRE.

I only ever remember it once about two years ago for a new job requirement. That was the longest physical I ever had about two hrs. long.

My girlfriend had a full medical last year. The male doctor asked her to remove all clothes above the waist including her bra. He carried out all the normal stuff including a breast exam. He then said now to your lower half as he told her to replace her upper clothes before taking off everything below the waist. He then asked her to lie of the examination couch and bring her knees up and to let her legs fall part. I had a full view of her pubic region as he carried out the internal standing to one side. Once he had finished, she was told to sit up at which point she winced and the doctor asked her what was wrong. She told him that she had a bad back as a result of a car accident years before. He asked her about her flexibility and asked if she could touch her toes. She looked

at me before facing away from him and bending over still with nothing on below her waist to touch her toes. Her bottom was a great sight as the doctor felt her spine through her tee-shirt. She was left bent over for about a minute

My wife always touches her toes when I examine her.

It was common to be instructed to bend over and to touch toes when I was a student and I had my annual physical compulsory exam in school since 11 age.

And after as it was said in an other post, it was always a part of the physical exam in a pre-induction center and after for induction before military service.

It was less unpleasant when you wear an underwear like it was in school but for military service, it was always naked.

At my last exam I was required to bend and touch my toes. The Dr, so far as I can remember just asked me to touch my toes. I was not wearing a gown, I was just in underpants. It hasn't happened at every exam I have ever had, it happened in most school medicals, but only occasionally since.

At a regular physical, not a gynecological visit, I have been required to bend over and touch my toes. I had my clothes on at the time. At my school physicals for athletics, I had to bend over and touch my toes, I was in bra and panties at the time. At my last physical, I was sitting on the exam table, and the doctor had me touch my toes from the sitting position, I was dressed in my clothes.

I have not had to "bend over" since I was younger. This is generally done to check for scoliosis, the curvature of the spine. This is something that is checked early on, as it is corrected by the time that you reach adulthood.

As part of the medical I had last year at work the doctor ask me to bend over and touch my toes while facing away from him. At that stage of the exam I was wearing just my underpants

Its fairly common to touch the toes, to check for spinal abnormalities, flexibility, etc..

I remember having to touch my toes, and having the doctor move sideways to check on my posture... Seems to be quite common to touch one's toes during a physical.

At my school physicals, I had to bend over and touch my toes. I was in underpants at the time.

I have not had to do this since early teens.

At physicals up until 15 this was a common practice. I was in my underwear most of the time up until age 13 where underwear became a luxury item to my old-time doc.

When I was overseas it was routine and yes I was stark naked. Since I have been back hee it has been only once and I was in my underwear. It was to check for back pain about three weeks after delivery.

I have sometimes wondered how does it feel when a doctor asks you to bend down and touch your toes if you aren't so supple to do so. I understand though the purpose is not literally to touch toes. Does anyone have experience of this? Would you be embarassed in this situation?

I have never been able to touch my toes. On more than one occasion, doctors have commented on my inability to do so. Once, a doctor chided me by saying "Can't you reach down a little further?" Embarrassing yet erotic when a female doctor has her hands on your back as you are bending over in just your underwear.

Answer to "Baraja" : of course it is embarrassing, I have experienced it many times for school physicals and army physicals and also after for job physicals, and the purpose of the doctor is to check the curvature of the back and also the suppleness of the person, but when you are told to touch your toes, it means in fact that he asks you to touch your ankles, it is enough difficult for some persons to touch their ankles.

As regards the embarrassment, it is quite the same.

answer to "Sensei 1980 " : if you cannot do it, it is good reason to ask you to try to do it to allow to the doctor to see what are your difficulties.

As regards your embarrassment when you were examined by a female doctor who asked you to bend over and had her hands on your waist or back, you say that it was a little erotic but you had still an underwear, it was not so bad, I have experienced this examination being totally naked, with my naked buttocks completely in display. It was more embarrassing.

A question to "DennyDay 53" : you say that you have this exam until the age of 15, why not after if you were still a student in high school?

and I have understood that you were examined in underwear until the age of 13, and after from the age of 13 and 15, you were completely naked because you had an old manner doctor, was it during physicals in schools ? or in a doctor office outside the school?

you have not told if a nurse was also present and if she could see you being placed behind you as the doctor ?

And do you have still some physicals with that doctor after the age of 15 but without that kind of examination of the curvature of the spine?

...it means in fact that he asks you to touch your ankles, it is enough difficult for some persons to touch their ankles.

Yes, I know. Luckily I have always been so supple that I haven't had any problems to touch exactly my toes when it has been told to do so.

All the time growing up to check back, ussauly in underwear. when i was 18 i had my first rectal exam during a physical, the dr told me to touch my toes he had one hand on my back and he gave me a thoro rectal exam i was naked. it was unexpected he never said he was going to do tht before i know it his finger was up there and yes it hurt

1. Do you still do this at physical exams? If so, every time? if not, at what age did they stop asking you to do that? Only when I go for a pre-employment type of exam where the doctor does a series of range-of-motion tests.

2. If you aren't in an exam gown for the physical, does the doc have you take off your shirt when asking you to touch your toes? If you are in an exam gown, does your doc have you take it off, or turn it around (if it opens in the front? The nurses have consistently requested that I 'take off everything' and put a gown on with the opening in the back... and then, consistently added that 'you can keep your underwear on.' Since I hate gowns to start with and am not about to wear a gown plus underwear, I end up in just tighty whities. At least it's easy to do the various stunts that way.

3. Does your doc ask you to "touch toes" or "hang forward at the waist?" 'Touch your toes.' 'Walk on your heals.'

4. Does your doc ever ask you to bend as far as you can? Bend forward. Bend to the right side. Bend to the left side. The prompts come from the doctor so quickly, it's hard to recall all of them.

No bending over to touch toes during any physical that I have had as an adult. As a kid, this sometimes happened in a doctor's office, but maybe not every time. In school, there were scoliosis checks in junior high. These were done in the lockerroom with us undressed to our underwear only. Each guy had to step forward when he reached the front of the line and pull his shorts down just below the bottom of his butt and bend over and touch his toes. The doctor took a quick look and then told us to pull our jockeys up and get dressed.

We heard that the girls also had this done in their lockerroom in their panties only but I don't know if that is true obviously. One guy claimed that he had heard this from his sister and that she had told him that, but only after she had asked him about the scoliosis procedure for the boys. Once she heard that we were in our underpants only, she told him that it was the same for girls.

Never had this happen to me.

I think when I was young but in my adult life. Would be nice though.

Very good question . but i have never been asked to do any of these things at a Physical exam .

but i wish i had cos i would know more about my health ,

I have been required to bend over and touch my toes at my annual physical. Also at my school physicals, I had to bend over and touch my toes while I was in my bra and panties at the time.

Yes, this was always asked of me. I was wearing my panties.

I've only had to do this once when I was 12 and had a scoliosis exam at school. All the boys went in, took our shirts off and were examined one at a time. Standing up straight while the doctor looked round, and then touching our toes while he ran his fingers up my spine.