Sports Physical Exams

The paediatrician asked me to take off all my clothes. I was not allowed to wear even my undies. Then she did a check up. ..... After i did it she spread the cheeks of my buttocks....This certificate was valid for half an year and then if you still wanted to go swimming you needed to go for another check up.

Too bad Salbert has not been on here in 2 years. It's the kind of post that might make some folks here want to ask "So how much longer did you want to go swimming there?" and get those semi-annuals........

I posted elsewhere to that effect. While someone suggested that as we age, we might need more detailed medical attention, the sports related deaths of young men and women who, at best, had received cursory sports physicals, and that might be it for the year, points to the need now addressed to spend the necessary time.

To the US posters is the physical to check up on the well being of the proposed athlete. or like most medical exams in the workplace and schools in the US to mitigate damages in any civil suit?

It is supposed to be for the purpose of detecting health issues in the athlete that might be aggravated by participation in a sport. In other words, make sure the athlete is healthy enough to participate. However, I suspect that there's a liability element to it as well. But here in the U.S., there have been sports physicals conducted for as long as I've been alive, and only in the last 30+ years have liability issues been more prominent.

Because, to continue, if I may, from Jimmy, athletes have died, and we can now figure out why. So attorneys can now file claims. You can see this as well with sports which require helmets, or sports which don't, but, perhaps should, to mitigate the chance of concussion. For how many decades did little Johnny fall or get hit; he got up, so little Johnny must be okay. A little shaken up? It happens.

I tend to think sometimes too with pro athletes that the teams considering investing big money in them want them checked out to make sure they're gonna get their money's worth.

Like if you were considering buying a car, you may choose to test drive it, & perhaps even bring it to your own mechanic to make sure it is good to go.

Sports physicals in the U.S. are mostly quick like 2-minute exams so the school or organization can say your healthy enough to play.

Sports physicals don't always catch everything. A 17 year old girl in our area who passed a physical to play high school basketball had a heart attack during a game, went into cardiac arrest, was resuscitated with cpr and defibrillator followed by open heart surgery (triple bypass). Youngest person I ever knew of to have bypass surgery for blocked coronary arteries.

Sports physicals don't always catch everything. . . . .

You aren't going to catch everything without very extensive exams that people would complain about and the schools probably couldn't afford to have performed.

Sometimes you can't catch obvious things. I've a knee injury and my family doctor didn't even bother examining it because hey, "no recent symptoms!".

By the past it was common to be naked for physical exams

Your story, "Jim's Insurance Exam," on Literotica is a real winner! Having the spouse in the exam room during a physical is a real excitement for me. I can remember back to the days when we were getting HS sports exams. My wife-to-be was a cheerleader back then, and I always wished I could have been a fly on the wall during their exams. One day, I'm going to get the courage to have here detail all the things that were involved with the female sports physicals.

My very first sports physical was at my doctors office the beginning of 7th grade. I remember well, first time standing up and unexpectedly he pulled my underwear down. I was stand naked in front of my mom,as he checked my penis, balls and the turn and cough exam. Luckily, my doctor had my mom step out of the room during next year's physical.

I knew my mom preferred taking me to our own doctor. The older I got the more I disliked sitting in my underwear then exposing my genitals & hernia exam. In front of my mom. My dad's view of sports physical is school was a "rite of passage". It was just something you dad to experience. Having a different doctor tell you to drop your pants, feel your penis, balls and tell you to "turn and cough" while a school.

Sports physicals in the nurses office were normal every year during high school. She (nurse or helper) would check us in and then take off our shirts and get in line proceed to each health station. The Dr. portion of the exam was private, the screen block the view of the 5 or 6 guys waiting to see the doctor. When it was your turn, first thing he told you "drop your pants to your knees." The Dr. examined ears, nose, throat listened to your heart and lungs. Then instructed you to turn around at checked your spine. Finally, turned back around where he checked your penis/ foreskin, testicles and hernia exam. Then, tried to pull up your pants up before the next guy was called to see the doctor. Of course, some guys needed extra time getting dressed due to their erection.

Probably, two or three after I graduated the school stopped doing sports/ school physicals to protect themselves to lawsuits.

I STILL think about my various sports physicals to this day. My main sports were wrestling and boxing which started a little earlier than other sports, so I had my first big, full-on sports physical in 5th grade for wrestling. They were always done station-to-station and if you went the main day (there were usually also be a make up day if you missed it) there was usually a huge group because the people that came to school to do the physicals would do all the grades for a certain sport on the same day and several smaller schools used our facilities too so those kids would come in for it.

Were you at school or regular doctor?

School ones....what did you have to wear? fully clothed or down to underwear? or just take off as you go....

regular ones.....full underwear?

I had a sports examination in high school. We were divided by our teacher in three groups. I joined the group with two girls. We had to be in a classroom that was converted to an examination room. We had to take off our shoes and socks bevor the exam starts. We were weighed and measured, our lungs were monitored, we had to close our eyes reach out our index fingers and touch our noses, we had to walk on tiptoe, make jumping jacks and our reflexes were tested.

I have only had 2 sports related exams in my life as they seem more common in the USA than in the UK, and they happened when I was 15, the other 22 and had to be done because of insurance requirements.

The first was at school and a firm started up an American football league in the area and I tried out to be a cheerleader for our school. I thought I would audition and that was it, but they had other ideas. We did the dance moves as they showed and we were whittled down to I think 23 girls and we were taken in into the changing rooms. In the room was two examine tables and we were told to undress to our knickers and fill out the forms they gave us. The questions were intense and frankly embarrassing but I filled it out anyway.

I watched the others being examined and it was intense. When my name was called I went up to the nurse and she took me into the toilet and watched as I gave produced a wee sample. When we returned to the room she weighed me, took my height and checked my bp. I then had to go up to the doctor who stood by the table, it was then I realised he was an old boyfriend's father which made the entire thing even more embarrassing.

He went to work on my cardiac system. He lifted my left boob and put the bulb of the stethoscope on my chest, listening to my heart I remember how shy I felt him seeing me topless, my boobs so close to his face and then after checking my heart he checked my lungs and it must have taken a full 4 minutes before he had finished. The nurse then told me to sit on the edge of the table and he checked my reflexes and then he asked my to lay down on the table and he prodded my tummy, legs, lymph nodes in my underarms and groin and then pulled my arms and legs about with gay abundance making me bend my legs in every way possible and when I got off the table and I had to bend over while he did a skeletal exam and then it was all over.

The second was when I tried out for the local women's football team. That was a group exam as well, but not nearly as intense as the first one although it included an ecg which was done by one of the hospital techs (I knew).

Hi tulip, what were your feelings about the medicals and did you have the same uniform that I have saw when I was over in the states.

Hi Bi, love your recent post about your strip search.

At first I was really shy whilst I waited, but it made me confront my adolescent fears. I loved watching the girls being examined and the technical process that was involved and I got a secret buzz being watched by my friends when I was so intimately examined.

The uniform was a totally shock to the system. I had seen movies and for the most part the cheerleaders showed a bit on their tummy, but our coach was an American professional cheerleader and would have nothing of our shyness. She made us wear the short skirt as an hipster so it showed as much of our legs and tummies as a bikini did. I was as red as a beetroot walking around wearing the uniform in from of my school mates. but being a gymnast I loved the dance moves so I put up with it.

Hi Tulip - could I ask what the questions on the form were and what was so embarrassing about them?

They asked about my periods, if I was having sex and if I had contacted an STD.

From 6th grade through high school I had a sports physical every year, sometimes twice. The procedure was always the same. You undressed to your underwear in the locker room and then entered the gym going station. The last one was a tent. You entered via one side, lowered your underwear and got the genital exam. You left by the other side of the tent, put on your underwear, picked up your completed physical card and could go home after dressing.

From 6th grade through high school I had a sports physical every year, sometimes twice. The procedure was always the same. You undressed to your underwear in the locker room and then entered the gym going station to station. The last one was a tent. You entered via one side, lowered your underwear and got the genital exam. You left by the other side of the tent, put on your underwear, picked up your completed physical card and could go home after dressing.