Restraints for delicate REAL procedures

How many woman, if any, have had their legs strapped down for a internal procedure, and if so was it done because of a delicate procedure or just a doctors way of choise.

Weeks prior to an IVF fertility procedure we were given a tour of the retrieval room, where doctors remove the eggs via surgery from the female (She is under for the procedure). The room is like a surgical room, with a gyn chair-table in the middle, only the gyn chair is very large, and the leg rests have very large Velcro straps that secure the woman's legs prior to the procedure. The straps run the length of the woman legs. The woman is already slightly sedated when she is moved from the recovery room into the procedure room, once in she is helped to move out of her bed and onto the table. Once she is on the table she her legs are placed in the stirups as she is put under. My wife said that in all of her years she has never seen such straps on a gyn table.

Thanks for the reply.It is wonderful what can be done to aid couples in becoming parents.

I did had 3 hysteroscopies. Every time i was staped down in the supports for this procedure. I felt scary as i felt my legs were fixed by the nurse. i can't see between my leg because i was laying flat and a drape were placed over me so i couldn't see, but feel the things.

Done because I was going to be 'asleep' - unable to control my muscles and stay in position.

A must for a play exam though, if I had my way! Wide awake and fully restrained!

When I hade a cystoscopy there were staps on the knee holder stirrups and when I glanced at them the nurse saw it and said they were for bad boys. I really wanted to test her comment but didn't know how the urologist would take it